Posted by Bob Tarsio on September 19, 2009 at 18:07:35:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WLTW! posted by David Bialik on September 16, 2009 at 22:54:22:
Dave:
Thanks for the kind words but I didn't do it alone. The station sound in those days was a cooperative effort between programming and engineering. Quality control of the content was probably more important than the processing chain and that was Al Bernstein in production. Nowadays clean copies of records and spots played on air are easy to come by. Back then 45s and 33s ruled the day before the CD player and the reel to reel machine was the primary means of producing commercials. Kind of quaint to be talking about these museum pieces now! Getting good copies of cuts for airplay wasn't easy and we had some tools to clean things up some we made ourselves and some we borrowed from others.
I wish I could take credit for the processing but can't take credit for that either! The processing chain was a corporate thing and the Optimod/Texar combination was dictated by our corporate director of engineering. Later I replaced the Texars with a Dolby Spectral Processor. Today's WLTW on air sound is pristine. Kudos to the guys at Clear Channel on making an FM radio station sound BETTER than an IPOD!
Regards,
Bob Tarsio