OMG... You guys brought me back many memories. I first started as radio moderador in the 90' and I used to work with those staff: cartridges, revox recorders, vinyl... How times goes so fast!
OMG! My dream is to be a Radio Talent! I have a Degree in Radio and I scored a part-time entry level promotions job at a radio station. Any tips how I can gain more experience or what I need to do to achieve my dream of being an on-air radio personality?
asi era la radio cuando inicie..no habia computadoras y todo la musica y los spots eran en cartuchos y se grababa en open reel huu que recuerdos ahuevo tenia qye estar alguien al pendiente de la estacion
Lose English translation...."Those were the days when radio began. There were no computers and all the music and spots were in cartridges and were recorded on reels...."
Cart machines are like VHS videotapes are today- ancient technology. Although they are still being used by some stations, including the one I work at on Saturdays- KPRO-AM 1570 in Riverside, California. Nowadays everything (the music, the commercials and more) are on a computer. The computer can even run the station with no one being present. Scary! Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the boss of the company replaced all his employees with robots who in turn replaced him.
Back in 1990 there were very few CD singles so by dubbing each song to cart you would eliminate mistakes (playing the wrong song of the CD) plus there was very little quality difference as long as you got a clean dub and kept your machines clean...
@MrDBCooperstein This was a great time in radio. Anytime before 1996 was pretty good. The guy at the beginning of the video did a lot COUNTRY radio station tv ads. I worked at WZZK for most of the 90s and he did ours for a long time. WHKO is a COX radio owned station. All of the Cox country stations and former New City country stations sounded a like. LOTS of music. Limited DJ chatter. Rusty Walked consulted most of them too!
Anybody have an idea who fixes ITC Delta Cart Machines? I have a Triple Deck that needs service for my home studio. I just push buttons.....can't service anything!
Yes, the computer is killing radio as we know it, and now we have digital audio broadcasting that is killing the magnificent FM transmission systems - the big towers on the hills with cool valves that glow in the dark. It's all satellites, smoke and mirrors. Sad really.
This is really antiquated. Most stations today use digital audio servers- not cart machines- and computerized logs- not paper logs. And there's not many DJs around after drive time either- automation.
Damn.... I've used every piece of equipment in this video. I just showed my age! :) BTW, Radio sounded much better than, even though they copied music to cart. No nasty digital artifacts from the compressed music played from a hard drive in a computer system routed though a crappy sounding switcher fed by a noisy sound card. I'll take CD's and carts any day but that's just me... :)
Ever heard of a Scott Systems SS32? I'm a disc jockey at WVCP in Gallatin. That has our spots, legal ids', sweeps', psas', and music. It's easier for us to run our shows but I agree, it's killing jobs.
yeh sure I've heard of it. I also use it because I am a producer for a radio station. I HATE the damn thing because as you say, all the above is on that computer but also they've got "voice tracks" which means DJ's get to voice track an entire hour or hours of say a 4 hour shift, and upload it to the system on the stopsets. Long story short, it "SOUNDS" like they are live but they are infact, in the computer. it is KILLING radio as we know it.
Except that it comes off canned WAY too often, especially when weather is concerned.
Frequently, when a front moves through, the voice tracker will make a guess that since it is 73 degrees when he/she tracks at noon, that at 4 PM it will be about 70. BUT, the front moves through, and it is 50. Also, they will say something like "70 and sunny" but the front brought in rain.
I can usually tell because they will use "about" a lot when the temperature is given.
thats right. also the commercial spots are on hard drives. they are networked together so that when production can just dump the spot into the computer and immediately send it to the computer that is located in the control room.
yeh i thought that was funny too. i guess the reason they copied the cd audio to cart was because they were afraid that the DJ's would damage the cd's by scatching them.
i would guess that this video (1991) was before the DENNON CD cart machines came out (where you put each cd in a plastic cart so it never gets handled thus, no scratches).
google "DN-951FA Cart Player" and you'll find a photo and description of what radio stations used for CD's until about mid 2000 when most radio stations decided to go completely hard drive, and use computers as the main source for all audio (including production).
The reason songs were on cart was there were less screw-ups. Instead of the jock dialing up the wrong song on a CD (no a whole lot of CD singles back then) it made sense to put one song on one cart. The quality was not discernable and the real enemy this station was attacking and quickly disposed of was an AM Country station, hence the emphasis on the music quality, single strength, etc.
OMG... You guys brought me back many memories. I first started as radio moderador in the 90' and I used to work with those staff: cartridges, revox recorders, vinyl... How times goes so fast!
josielpontocom 2 months ago
Please check out the Fat Cat Bankers by Tokyo Rose
Tokyorosebiz 9 months ago
I hope they get my post card
VE7WNK 11 months ago
What are those carts? Are those analog or digital?
judenihal 11 months ago
Its hard to believe that 20 years ago was 1991 (i was still living) when it feels like saying 20 years ago is like the 80's.
judenihal 11 months ago
OMG! My dream is to be a Radio Talent! I have a Degree in Radio and I scored a part-time entry level promotions job at a radio station. Any tips how I can gain more experience or what I need to do to achieve my dream of being an on-air radio personality?
nickelwindow53 11 months ago
wow, all the stations now are all on pcs, no cd are carts to deal with
123scottsdj 1 year ago
I bet somewhere there is a huge mountain of carts about the size of the empire state building topped off with Bulking machines
replacementshiw 1 year ago
Wow cart machines takes me back to 1991 we played CD's then. Did I see an Optimod in the 'master control"
lrich65184 1 year ago
So funny today!
NEILVANCE 1 year ago
asi era la radio cuando inicie..no habia computadoras y todo la musica y los spots eran en cartuchos y se grababa en open reel huu que recuerdos ahuevo tenia qye estar alguien al pendiente de la estacion
raulpinzon 1 year ago
Lose English translation...."Those were the days when radio began. There were no computers and all the music and spots were in cartridges and were recorded on reels...."
MrDBCooperstein 1 year ago
Cart machines are like VHS videotapes are today- ancient technology. Although they are still being used by some stations, including the one I work at on Saturdays- KPRO-AM 1570 in Riverside, California. Nowadays everything (the music, the commercials and more) are on a computer. The computer can even run the station with no one being present. Scary! Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the boss of the company replaced all his employees with robots who in turn replaced him.
Superbatfan 2 years ago
Why shucks -- reminds me of the "Jerry Todd" show on SCTV.
More proof that radio is on the bottom of the entertainment ladder.
xraymond10 2 years ago
How fun to find this here!!!
amyoz007 2 years ago
Why dub from CD to cart?
"It's simply the best sound quality possible"
anorak103 2 years ago
Back in 1990 there were very few CD singles so by dubbing each song to cart you would eliminate mistakes (playing the wrong song of the CD) plus there was very little quality difference as long as you got a clean dub and kept your machines clean...
MrDBCooperstein 2 years ago
@MrDBCooperstein This was a great time in radio. Anytime before 1996 was pretty good. The guy at the beginning of the video did a lot COUNTRY radio station tv ads. I worked at WZZK for most of the 90s and he did ours for a long time. WHKO is a COX radio owned station. All of the Cox country stations and former New City country stations sounded a like. LOTS of music. Limited DJ chatter. Rusty Walked consulted most of them too!
steeleaudio 1 year ago
strict limits on how many ads you can play at any one time? I guess "one at any one time" sounds best!
anorak103 2 years ago
Anybody have an idea who fixes ITC Delta Cart Machines? I have a Triple Deck that needs service for my home studio. I just push buttons.....can't service anything!
BoxManChoch 2 years ago
yes they are you should see the engineers< I know I am one! so woo hoo.
drradio2003 2 years ago
Yes, the computer is killing radio as we know it, and now we have digital audio broadcasting that is killing the magnificent FM transmission systems - the big towers on the hills with cool valves that glow in the dark. It's all satellites, smoke and mirrors. Sad really.
nzmedic 2 years ago
This is really antiquated. Most stations today use digital audio servers- not cart machines- and computerized logs- not paper logs. And there's not many DJs around after drive time either- automation.
nakayle 3 years ago 5
Damn.... I've used every piece of equipment in this video. I just showed my age! :) BTW, Radio sounded much better than, even though they copied music to cart. No nasty digital artifacts from the compressed music played from a hard drive in a computer system routed though a crappy sounding switcher fed by a noisy sound card. I'll take CD's and carts any day but that's just me... :)
BadEditPro 3 years ago 2
love randy travis
jambo1oo 3 years ago
nightime and overnight DJ are all but a dying breed unforunately
lemonwr 3 years ago
thats because of automation.
computers killed the radio DJ star
coffeehigh420 3 years ago
Ever heard of a Scott Systems SS32? I'm a disc jockey at WVCP in Gallatin. That has our spots, legal ids', sweeps', psas', and music. It's easier for us to run our shows but I agree, it's killing jobs.
bigrobmjca 3 years ago
yeh sure I've heard of it. I also use it because I am a producer for a radio station. I HATE the damn thing because as you say, all the above is on that computer but also they've got "voice tracks" which means DJ's get to voice track an entire hour or hours of say a 4 hour shift, and upload it to the system on the stopsets. Long story short, it "SOUNDS" like they are live but they are infact, in the computer. it is KILLING radio as we know it.
coffeehigh420 3 years ago 2
Except that it comes off canned WAY too often, especially when weather is concerned.
Frequently, when a front moves through, the voice tracker will make a guess that since it is 73 degrees when he/she tracks at noon, that at 4 PM it will be about 70. BUT, the front moves through, and it is 50. Also, they will say something like "70 and sunny" but the front brought in rain.
I can usually tell because they will use "about" a lot when the temperature is given.
FreedomLovingGuy 2 years ago
now the music is on hard drives right
howdoiquityou2006 3 years ago
thats right. also the commercial spots are on hard drives. they are networked together so that when production can just dump the spot into the computer and immediately send it to the computer that is located in the control room.
coffeehigh420 3 years ago
more cheese than Tony Blackburn's foreskin!
djoutlaws 3 years ago
they use to put music on carts so the records
wouldn't get cue burned from repeated use.
really music sounds better straight from
the CD disc. I don't get why they think
music would sound better from a cart.
all that does is add tape hiss, and lower
the dynamic headroom.
enjoyed the video.
VideoViper 3 years ago
yeh i thought that was funny too. i guess the reason they copied the cd audio to cart was because they were afraid that the DJ's would damage the cd's by scatching them.
i would guess that this video (1991) was before the DENNON CD cart machines came out (where you put each cd in a plastic cart so it never gets handled thus, no scratches).
coffeehigh420 3 years ago
google "DN-951FA Cart Player" and you'll find a photo and description of what radio stations used for CD's until about mid 2000 when most radio stations decided to go completely hard drive, and use computers as the main source for all audio (including production).
coffeehigh420 3 years ago
The reason songs were on cart was there were less screw-ups. Instead of the jock dialing up the wrong song on a CD (no a whole lot of CD singles back then) it made sense to put one song on one cart. The quality was not discernable and the real enemy this station was attacking and quickly disposed of was an AM Country station, hence the emphasis on the music quality, single strength, etc.
MrDBCooperstein 3 years ago
Actually, it was cut control. No PD wanted the Jock to play the wrong cut from a CD.
FreedomLovingGuy 2 years ago
CLASSY! very nice and the jox sound professional. friendly place as it seems. LOVE THOSE PD GLASSES TOO BTW!
MDBUTLER0 4 years ago 3