Vintage Studio

[DouglasB]

Just a quick note to say that my home "studio" is starting to show... My wife and I (more her than I :-* :-* :-* :-*...) spent the weekend putting things on the places. Far from finished but still... :-D
Please... give your opinions...

It looks good, you've done a marvelous job. One thing, if this is a vintage studio, it's too clean. It's too organized. It's too - uh - nice. Where are the un-emptied ashtrays, the moldy coffee cups, the wires spliced together with friction tape and paper clips?
Many of us, while yearning for the good old days of our careers, never worked in a studio as clean, as organized, and as well crafted and cared-for as yours.
You've done a marvelous job of creating a nice work environment. Too bad we never saw anything that pristine during our careers.
Good work, and wish you much success...

 

[mikl73]

now you just need some liner cards and something like this

http://www.1080wklo.com/images/WKLOHennesFormatClock2.jpg

 

[Bengalsfan]

If anyone else has a Stereo 80 they want to get rid of, send me a message. That was the very first console I ever operated, later worked on, back in 1982 and would love to have one.

 

[jefflaurence]

Michael..that Hennes clockk is classic..I saw that same clock at the old WLCY in Tampa Bay when "Willie" was our consultant. That console is really sweet..sounded great..ran for years..a few things that need to be added:

1. The little aluminum "sleeve" that fits on the motor shaft of the turntable to speed up the records to 46.5 rpm..so the music "sounds brighter and happier on our station"

2. A Sennheiser MD421 going into a Shure "Level-Lok" before going into the board.

3. A CBS LAbs Audimax III with the resistor cut out to speed the reloease time up to "unholy"

4. ONE jingle the "TM Shotgun"

Oh and you'll have to install a special phone so you can have your wife call you several times an hour asking for requests..Later you can make plans to "meet her in the bar of the Best Western" after your "shift

 

[kenglish]

I was over at the freight salvage place last week and saw a box of those "all the holes in rows" ceiling tiles, like stations used to have on the walls of their studios (think "Dragnet" interrogation room).

A Western Union clock and those would make this very sweet. ;D

 

[Savage]

Ahh, yes - the Western Union "Naval Observatory Time" clock. They would self-wind from their internal batteries once hourly - and Murphy's Law dictated this would only occur when the mic was open. You could always tell a station that had a WE clock, because you'd hear the unmistakable "WHIRRRRRR......CLICK!" during a newscast or live-read spot.

Speaking of that - when was the last time you heard a jock doing a live-read spot in a pre-recorded donut jingle?

 

[SFM-Ptgal]

I d'love to lay my hands and pick a few boxes of those tiles. I made a thread a few monthes ago regarding them... The clock might be too classy... If I had a Yard I would go for that

About clocks... A fellow workmate from the station where I collected the equipment told me how the "pips" were generated. It was something like a mechanical device with a metal disk that rotated at 1 RPH and when reaching the TOTH using the protrusions it triggered an oscilator giving then the pips... Was there anything similar in the USA?...

 

[Tom Wells]

The clock might be too classy...

I've seen only one of the Western Union Clocks.
It's still in service on the back wall of the Savoy Grill at the Hotel Savoy in Kansas City.
They were THE very classiest hotel in the day, and several of the employees who had been there decades remembered when it
used to still get the update signal.