eli@uw-june (Eli Messinger) (06/08/84)
Most of the cart systems I've seen at top-40 stations use standard length carts, together with cue tones that allows the cart-machine to fast for- ward when it hits the end of the song. Are there really people out there who sit and custom wind carts to fit the length of the particular track that's being recorded? ... uw-june!eli
gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (06/11/84)
The only time that I have ever custom-wound a cart is in the case of sound effects carts -- its very important to have a know delay between sounds. gary
jlp@inmet.UUCP (06/13/84)
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inmet!jlp Jun 12 14:59:00 1984
Unfortunately, there are still some stations that don't have fast-forward
cart machines. Indeed, some stations only have three or four cart players,
or at most a "stack" of five. The latter of course can get by reasonably
well, bu try to imagine having to go into a stop set ( three commercials,
a promo, a teaser, and a jingle, each on a separate cart, for example) at
a station with fixed length tape. if you have a 4 minute song on a 5 minute
tape ( example only, please ) , you're down to two players for that last
minute, unless you elect to pull the song cart and let it play out off-line.
Not a very exciting prospect.
On the other hand, the larger stations have access to carousels and walls.
I've seen carousels with as many as thirty carts in them (WMAR-FM, Baltimore ),
and walls of 100 carts (WCOP-FM, Boston, now something else). These allow
great flexibility for all types of automated and semiautomated formats. And
naturally, the fast-forward cue tone certainly helps!.
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Jerryl Payne
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