"Though, you may think it looks somewhat trashy, the old rotary pot Sparta console was state of the art for that day and age"
Hope I didn't come across as indicating the studio looked trashy, my intention was to suggest that WTUE didn't put a lot of money into the operation and that in spite of that, the WTUE air staff gave the illusion of broadcasting from a superb facility. My first gig was at WAKW 93.3 in Cincy...I saw George Waslo (R.I.P.) install a new mono Sparta console in 1967 which looked identical to WTUE's. It was inexpensive and had carbon pots rather than step attenuators (that said, WUME in Paoli,IN is still using a 4 channel version to this day--can't be too bad!). The stereo board to have in 1971 was the Gates Executive...again, I know of one of those still in service today. Many of the legendary AM's of the day had mono versions of the Executive. But judging from the size of the room in the photo I saw, I'm not sure it would have fit!
To all who were involved in the "Rock Of Dayton", thanks for providing the sound track of my post high school years...'twas great radio.
Hope I didn't come across as indicating the studio looked trashy, my intention was to suggest that WTUE didn't put a lot of money into the operation and that in spite of that, the WTUE air staff gave the illusion of broadcasting from a superb facility. My first gig was at WAKW 93.3 in Cincy...I saw George Waslo (R.I.P.) install a new mono Sparta console in 1967 which looked identical to WTUE's. It was inexpensive and had carbon pots rather than step attenuators (that said, WUME in Paoli,IN is still using a 4 channel version to this day--can't be too bad!). The stereo board to have in 1971 was the Gates Executive...again, I know of one of those still in service today. Many of the legendary AM's of the day had mono versions of the Executive. But judging from the size of the room in the photo I saw, I'm not sure it would have fit!
To all who were involved in the "Rock Of Dayton", thanks for providing the sound track of my post high school years...'twas great radio.
... RF Hut aside - I preferred a big-bad GATES in the "shack"... Later, I went on to service those "boys" at my-own stations and never regretted the moment [well, maybe