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The way it was...
- Thread starter Yeziknoradio
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And yet, I know of a radio station that today has two walls full of carted music! There isn't a cart player in the building, but the carts are still there!
Kinda freaky..... like walking into a museum and seeing dead things!
The station I work for still had cart machines in the studio until last year. The carts were on the wall behind us collecting dust. I went in to work a couple weeks ago and the carts were gone. I don't know where they went and didn't ask. I guess it is the end of an era.
Kinda freaky..... like walking into a museum and seeing dead things!
The station I work for still had cart machines in the studio until last year. The carts were on the wall behind us collecting dust. I went in to work a couple weeks ago and the carts were gone. I don't know where they went and didn't ask. I guess it is the end of an era.
LowPayDJ said:
mmmmmmm....... could be........
Michael
Element9 said:
When I worked at 3WG, we used cart machines, cassette and CD players on-air. In the production studio, we were still using Ampex series 351 reel-to-reel machines and cart machines. And, yes, we were STILL going through splice tape and razor blades right up until the station signed off in the early summer of 2003. The only computers were at the front desk and in the business office. Needless to say after my time at 3WG had come to an end and I moved over to Crawford, having no computer experience, it was quite an adjustment. Fortunately, the good folks at Crawford worked with me and were very patient for which I thank them.
Joe, those Ampex 351s are probably the same ones we inherited from WHEC Radio when be put WAXC on the air back in January 1972. Were the cart machines triple deckers?
There was no probably about it Sherlock! Those WERE the same Ampex 351s from the WHEC days. As for the cart machines, they were single ITC units. I worked there from 1979 to 2003 and we used those same sumbitches throughout my time there. Did you ever use the wooden timer with the big orange/red numbers?
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cee said:
WNED-FM has retained it's entire classical music vinyl library (25,000)....has installed a turntable in the studio and plays them as sort of a novelty.
No acetate however.
Wonder if the RCA RT-21 that used to be at the old WHEC/WAXC studios at 191 East Avenue ever made it to 3WG either at Chestnut Plaza or Winton Road.
I can still see Frank Scheidt rewinding stuff on that thing. It had a variable speed fast reverse and forward, not unlike the MCI units of the 1980s, except the RCA was a relic of about 1965.
BTW, this is more appropriate of another thread on this board, but Scheidt was - and remains to this day - one of the best production people I've ever seen. He was one of those guys who didn't even bother to mark the tape with a grease pencil in making edits. He'd find the spot on the tape, grasp it right on the right side of the head block and place the spot he held with his fingers at a precise position on the Editall. Then he'd make a perfect cut. Said marking the tape "slowed him down." Of course every edit was exactly on the money.
Of course we announcers all got to watch Frank because in 1972-73 WAXC was an AFTRA/NABET shop. Jocks couldn't touch equipment. The production and control rooms were right out of 1954....RCA "consolette," three tube-type Collins rack-mount cart machines and a Junkcaster, plus two RCA 16-inch "transcription turntables" that still had dual pickup arms for vertical and lateral records!!
I can still see Frank Scheidt rewinding stuff on that thing. It had a variable speed fast reverse and forward, not unlike the MCI units of the 1980s, except the RCA was a relic of about 1965.
BTW, this is more appropriate of another thread on this board, but Scheidt was - and remains to this day - one of the best production people I've ever seen. He was one of those guys who didn't even bother to mark the tape with a grease pencil in making edits. He'd find the spot on the tape, grasp it right on the right side of the head block and place the spot he held with his fingers at a precise position on the Editall. Then he'd make a perfect cut. Said marking the tape "slowed him down." Of course every edit was exactly on the money.
Of course we announcers all got to watch Frank because in 1972-73 WAXC was an AFTRA/NABET shop. Jocks couldn't touch equipment. The production and control rooms were right out of 1954....RCA "consolette," three tube-type Collins rack-mount cart machines and a Junkcaster, plus two RCA 16-inch "transcription turntables" that still had dual pickup arms for vertical and lateral records!!
It's not exactly locally relevant on the Buffalo-Rochester board, but as long as we're talking about old-school gear still in service because of the preferences of veteran radio people:
Allegedly longtime WGN Chicago morning personality Wally Phillips insisted on continuing the use of acetate transcription for cuts and bits on his show almost until his 1986 retirement. Where the heck the WGN engineers ever found the blank discs and cutting stylii well into the 1980s is anybody's guess - there wasn't an internet back then to search for arcane stuff.
And Rick Dees is famously resistant to new tech in radio. Until sometime in the very recent past, he insisted on keeping his RCA BC-6 console from about 1974 with the rotary faders, plus his brace of Fidelipac cart machines. Recently I saw a photo of him with Pacific Recorders sales engineers, proudly posing with a new custom-built Dees Show console - and, sure enough, it had multicolored rotary faders just like the RCA.
Allegedly longtime WGN Chicago morning personality Wally Phillips insisted on continuing the use of acetate transcription for cuts and bits on his show almost until his 1986 retirement. Where the heck the WGN engineers ever found the blank discs and cutting stylii well into the 1980s is anybody's guess - there wasn't an internet back then to search for arcane stuff.
And Rick Dees is famously resistant to new tech in radio. Until sometime in the very recent past, he insisted on keeping his RCA BC-6 console from about 1974 with the rotary faders, plus his brace of Fidelipac cart machines. Recently I saw a photo of him with Pacific Recorders sales engineers, proudly posing with a new custom-built Dees Show console - and, sure enough, it had multicolored rotary faders just like the RCA.
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