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What Would You Like To See In A New Station?

Just a quick update-

Still on schedule for a launch on or about March 8th. Considering different station names and looking for someone who can do reasonably priced IDs and liners, maybe a few 60s-style jingles as well. Or, I can bring back the call letters from a station of the past and use their IDs and jingles off the "Cruisin" series, most of which I have on CD and tape. Suggestions, anyone? And once I get this up and running, I might have a second station as well, are there any under-served formats anyone can recommend?
 
LowTideNumber6 said:
Just a quick update-

Still on schedule for a launch on or about March 8th. Considering different station names and looking for someone who can do reasonably priced IDs and liners, maybe a few 60s-style jingles as well. Or, I can bring back the call letters from a station of the past and use their IDs and jingles off the "Cruisin" series, most of which I have on CD and tape. Suggestions, anyone? And once I get this up and running, I might have a second station as well, are there any under-served formats anyone can recommend?
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Good luck to you. I'll be looking forward to listening.
 
Many thanks to all who have offered suggestions, advice and good wishes. The station will launch this Sunday night. I'll post the final details later today but meanwhile, just a few updates...

One- I've included some music from 1970 that I think fits the format.
Two- I've dropped the idea of using the sound run through a transmitter and into an actual radio. I was getting much too much of a muffled sound on a lot of songs.
Three- In order to stay listed on Live365 at all times, I will be running in basic mode most of the time and live mode the rest.

Have a great weekend, everyone!
 
Well, I'm at the one week mark as of tomorrow and happy with things so far. Just a note to let everyone know that a one-hour preview show with some of this upcoming week's songs will begin playing as of 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight and run till 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. This is your chance to hear my sense of humor in action.
 
Dangit. I missed the time period where your voice was on. But I've listened a few times. Really irritating that Live 365 drops the stream after such a short time. I HAVE had the window on songs being played open the whole last week. I like what you have but my preference would be about 5 times as many songs "per set list" as you have now. That's just me. See what others think. I'm running a thousand or two and don't think it's enough ::). I would still like to hear what your recordings through the radio sounded like, your stream sounds more like an FM station than an AM radio station. I can see how much work it must be to enter all the data per song....I run music that I don't even know the titles to, much less running time and "where" it came from. I'd suggest a tighter pick-up, song to song, to sound more like a top 40 heyday station. Sounds better than when I began running my pt 15, that's for sure.
See the podcast board for a link to an aircheck from this past Saturday evening, under "Well, I guess I'm a Podcaster now".
 
Tom-

Agreed that Live365's policy of dropping the stream if you don't click the button indicating you're still there is less than ideal but it's what I'm stuck with. As regards the play list, I'll have it doubled in length by the end of this week coming up. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "tightening" things up but I'll try to figure it out. And I agree that right now it does sound more like an FM station than AM, which is something I'm working on. I might run a few tests of different things this coming Saturday, since that and Sunday are the day my listening hours drop to next-to-nothing.
 
It's the thread that I won't let die...anyhow, a new play list with a slightly different approach to things will begin about 45 minutes from now. The list is only an hour long, but will extend to 90 minutes tomorrow and have about 1/3 of the music change every day. And yes, I'm dj'ing on this...might as well put the $40 microphone to use, right? Tom, no need to send me an e-mail, just listen to the station sometime between now and this time tomorrow and let me know what you think.
 
I liked "I Got a Job". Haven't heard that but maybe once before in my life.
The present stram has no bass response, and sounds like a 1960's small transistor radio.
Not sure how your audio is being handled....if you are using a speaker/microphone arrangement, put the mike as close to the speaker
as possible or the bass will be limited as it is now. I think I prefer it the way it was to the present arrangement.
The current stream still seems to have the extended high frequency response of an FM, but now is too "tinny".
You sound pretty good on mike...I'd like to hear you with the old audio set up.
 
Yeah, I know that the sound I tried for didn't quite work. I'm fooling around with a few different things right now to see what works best. And as for "Got A Job", that's one I had never heard either, until I picked up the double CD set I have it on in a record store. Glad you liked my mic work, I have a little bit of actual radio experience and tried to put that to good use. I'm sure I'll get better as I go along.
 
Does anyone have any thoughts on the new way I'm processing sound? It's better than what I had a couple of days ago, but if anyone can make suggestions on how to improve it further, please share. I'm using the next-to-most aggressive level of compression I can, but if going "harder" would make for a more authentic sound, then I'll make that change. I did find a way to cut off the audio at 10KHZ which I think is a much more "AM" sound sort of thing than what I was doing previously, right?
 
The compression is good, the 10khz cutoff sounds good, but there's something cuttiing off the bass below 500 hz.
Comparing to the spot that ran after "Love me Do", the music sounds like it's on a 3" speaker on a 1960's pocket transistor radio.
I'm thinking that's probably not what you want. The station promos have decent bass response, it's just the miked segments and music that don't. There's also a background hiss I did not notice before, not noticeable in the music, but on the miked segements.
 
Glad that the compression and cutoff are working. I too noticed the lack of bass response and tweaked a few things for today's show that should improve that at least a little. But the background hiss on the microphone worries me. It could have been the hissing noise my heat makes in this room, which is a very small room. Let's see if the problem persists, and if so, I'll try to isolate the cause and fix it. My attitude is that Rome wasn't built in a day, so if I keep on improving as I go along, with better processing and such, I'll be happy.

On one other note, I can definitely notice that I'm shaking off the rust when it comes to speaking on-air. Today's show has tighter dj'ing than Monday's or yesterday's, I think.
 
I'm back...

Sorry that I had to shut the whole thing down for awhile. Blame the current economy. I've enlisted the support of a close friend who is paying my monthly fee, so as long as she keeps her job, I'll be on the air. What's new is a format switch to a recreation of a 1975 Top 40 station. Along with the "currents" every hour will have at least two oldies, usually in some sort of spotlight (such as three in a row from this week in 1966, which is one of tomorrow's sets). Every week corresponds to its 1975 counterpart, with the "currents" being records that were on the charts that week. Some of this week's songs include:

SHINING STAR- EARTH, WIND & FIRE (the single edit)
BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS- FREDDY FENDER
THANK GOD I'M A COUNTRY BOY- JOHN DENVER (the studio version, not the live one)
ONLY YESTERDAY- CARPENTERS
I DON'T LIKE TO SLEEP ALONE- PAUL ANKA and ODIA COATES
GET DOWN, GET DOWN- JOE SIMON
RAINY DAY PEOPLE- GORDON LIGHTFOOT


Station page is at- http://www.live365.com/stations/misterglenaubrey
 
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