VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

Nah-- I learned on the RCA BC-7A or something remarkably like it.

Moe Egan · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:48 am Post subject:

OH MY HEAD DB! Gasp

Looking at that picture I had an out of body experience and a trip through the time space continuim back to a time long ago and a galaxy far far away.

That consule was identical to the one I first played on in college radio, and on in the production studio of WPRO in Providence.... a time where huge headphones were called "CANS", a great voice talent had "GOOD PIPEs" and you could ask someone to "Turn the Pot Down" and they knew what you meant. Wow. Okay, Sherman, set the way back machine back to 2007, time to go back to the present Laugh

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Moe Egan · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

...oh, and the stacks of carts all over the place....you sure don't see anything like THAT anymore! Oh...one more thing...do you remember when you could SMOKE in the studio and no one cared? Wow. I AM old.

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Deirdre · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

This is the kind of thing KKUA radio (Honolulu) had in the early 70's.
I was a Teenage Gopher, in the days before "interns".

Smoke-a-rama there, too.
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billelder · Guest

Something caught my attention in the WFIF picture. The VU's aren't "peggin'."
(Maybe they were on their way up when the pic was snapped?)

Deirdre · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:

They must be showing air signal, post-limiter.

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Audiogal · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject:

Ah, yes, Deebs, I remember those round pots.
Circa 1986... Gasp

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glittlefield · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

Don G. · King's Row Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1071 Location: MA

God, those consoles look familiar. Brings back some strange memories. As I recall, the monitor pot went all the way to 11!

allensco · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

Gregory Best · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: Carts, what about turn tables???

I started when (1968) we played 45's and 33's. Slip-cued. Only jingles and spots were on carts. Casey Casem's American Top 40 came on a 33 rpm album.

Anyone remember Hobo Laughing

's speeding up the turn tables to get a different sound than the competition and to get more music in an hour? 45's played at 47.5?

How about taking transmitter meter readings and actually having to take an FCC 3rd class exam (on such things as tower lighting, and antenna icing)?? When I went into the City to take my first FCC exam, it was cancelled because Chicago’s loop was sealed off by the National Guard because of rioting in the aftermath of Bobby Kennedy's assassination.
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donrandall · Guest

K.I.M.N. in Denver was one of the stations that sped up the turntables. I still remember reading an article about that in Billboard Magazine about a hunnert and forty years ago.

I remember a couple of stations I worked at that used old TV audio boards. They had about four times as many pots and keys and other gizmos as we would ever need. The boards got warm enough that you could actually heat a sandwich - or remove the warp from an LP by placing it on top with several other albums piled on for weight, leave it there for an hour or so and then check it. Talk about yer stack o' hot wax.....

One station I worked at had what was brand new and a hot setup at the time - the board was called "Dualux" if I remember correctly and I believe it was made by Gates. We could take any pot and switch it's function to something else. Sometimes we would key the mic at the extreme left end and use the next two pots for the turntables and so on down the line. Other times we might swap everything around, just for kicks -- It was always fun to switch everything just before the next guy took over.....well, it was a lot nicer than setting his ad copy on fire while he was reading the ad for the Brimstone Crematoreum and Sandwich Shop.

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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:15 am Post subject:

DB - I started on that board as well - but it was a bit larger - 16 pots (I think) you had to have the wingspan of a condor to reach the mic pot (far left) and the RTR pot (far right). Remember the roll paper from the AP/UPI wire? Rip & Read national news? I remember tearing the paper off the printer and dragging a trail 15 feet long through the studio - while the news intro was running - trying to find ... whatever it was I was looking for, then scrolling through while I was reading like some ancient Roman. And God help the jock who didn't let the paper run ALL THE WAY out before changing the roll. Oh yeah - the alarm for weather - breaking news - whatever ding ding ding.
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