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You know you're old when....

Today

10:33 am BTO's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

11:07 am Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days"
 
When you tell your 14 year old daughter we have to go by the record store and she says "What's a record store?" (honost to gawww....my daughter said that to me a couple of years ago)
 
tah said:
TheRover said:
I heard Van Halen's "Beautiful Girls" at Whole Foods today...

But it didn't make me feel old..... :D
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Then again.......posting the same thing twice in less than a minute ....well, that's something "old" people do............ :D ;D :D

Sorry, I just had to kid you about that :p :p :p
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Well... really... the 'old' part was mis-typing in the first post.....

But patience for proof-reading goes, too... I guess....

To feel young again.... I would like to go to the Butthole Surfers concert at the Granada later this month...

But I have to ask.... what if they Suck ???
 
How about when you're the only person that's ever used carts and a reel to reel at your station?
 
Carts? Reel-To-Reel? Man 'o man that's modern stuff.

How about when you tell people about the technique to miss the cue burn in the vinyl on a 45 sitting on a QRK?
 
LasVegasRadioJunky said:
How about when you tell people about the technique to miss the cue burn
in the vinyl on a 45 sitting on a QRK?
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Tell me, tell me...

What is your technique? (Or is it Jay's technique? ;D)

Is it finding the start of the song, then back-cueing it only once to
about an eighth of a turn before the song, then at that point in the
"dead wax" area going back and forth enough times to give it a burn
there?

The result being the jocks then cue it just to the end of the "pre-burn"
and--since it's a QRK which can handle a tight cue without wowing--
voila! no cue burn at the top of the song on air.
 
I recently used the term "clockwise" in front of a dozen 20-somethings and was rewarded with 12 blank stares and arched eyebrows.

Only took around 20 minutes to explain it to them. But they grasped "counterclockwise" right away after that.

God bless the digital clock, I suppose. Heaven help them if they ever have to use a sun dial.
 
Tell me, tell me...

What is your technique? (Or is it Jay's technique? )

Is it finding the start of the song, then back-cueing it only once to
about an eighth of a turn before the song, then at that point in the
"dead wax" area going back and forth enough times to give it a burn
there?

The result being the jocks then cue it just to the end of the "pre-burn"
and--since it's a QRK which can handle a tight cue without wowing--
voila! no cue burn at the top of the song on air.
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That's one way, the other way was to eyeball where the burn was and to not switch-on/key-in the pot until the turntables needle had passed the burn.
 
Not to rain on that burger joint's parade, but I sense the potential for a visit from the music licensing folks about that little ditty you hear when you click on their website.

Gotta try the burger though!
 
LasVegasRadioJunky said:
...the other way was to eyeball where the burn was and to not switch-on/key-in
the pot until the turntables needle had passed the burn.
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In doing that to avoid getting the cue burn on the air, wouldn't you miss the
first note (or couple of notes) of the song?

Today, with music being on the hard drive from a CD source, one doesn't have
to worry about burn, but I still cringe when the first couple of notes are missed
because either the channel isn't potted (slid?) up high enough or they're buried
under the end of a jingle or positioner. Prime example: The Letter (Box Tops).

Closed circuit for the 98WRC Control Room website MD: the next time you revise
the playlist perhaps you could include The Letter so all of us in or out of radio
can practice getting the first 2-3 notes audibly on air. ;)
 
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