Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Airchecks of LA or SF radio from mid 1970s?

I'm trying to find some full length airchecks from the LA and SF areas from 1973-1978. Of particular interest would be KNX-FM from 1975-1977, and KKDJ from about 1974 until a bit before they became KIIS-FM. I'd also love to find some KROQ from 1978-1980. And any other "Boss Radio" airchecks. (KHJ, etc). I'm looking for the full length ones, not "scoped" stuff. I just got a working reel-to-reel deck again, and I've been transcribing to MP3 some of my old recordings. One thing I will be posting in the next few weeks is the last days of KNX-FM before they became KKHR. One thing I've noticed from listening to these is that Radio used to be good. Voice tracking and automation abuse killed popular radio. (Although KNX-FM was automated and it was one of the greatest FM stations of all time. Automation is a tool; when used correctly it can sound great, when used poorly, it sounds like Chear Channel's HD2 stations.)

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5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

would it not be better to use OGG FLAC (lossless) rather than the muddled sounding lossy mp3 format to archive those reel-to-reel tapes?

May 22, 2008 3:39 AM  
Anonymous Rusty said...

Nah, 192k MP3 is fine for this. They're recorded at 3.75 IPS from over the air FM. There isn't hardly any signal over 13khz, and nothing over 15khz.

Sure, maybe some people can hear the difference between FLAC and 192kb MP3s but I doubt they could on this source material. (Mind you I'm recording these into a Marantz hardware digital recorder, so I only get WAV or 192K MP3.)

Projects like this only get done when they're easy and have quick gratification. Dubbing the tapes and then loading them onto the iPod to listen to in the car is really enjoyable. And it sounds way better than when we used cassettes for airchecks.

May 30, 2008 6:15 PM  
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September 6, 2008 12:49 PM  
Blogger riff buttons said...

I put up some old KROQ shows that I recorded years ago. Thought you might like to hear them.
Thanks,
Riff
fromthegarage.blogspot.com

September 6, 2008 1:34 PM  
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