Jim Stokes
Starter of this subject: Lou Genco
Last post in this subject: 11/13/2000
Messages in this subject: 9
| Lou Genco | 11/13/2000 9 replies |
Several changes are in the planning stages for both the BBS section and other areas of old-time.com. Here is a chance for your input.
You can add your thoughts to this thread, so others can comment; or send an email with your suggestions to the webmaster at http://www.old-time.com/mailit.html New or revised areas will be online in early January. Lou
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| Nate Williams | 11/15/2000 3 replies |
| Lou: I enjoy all your discussion boards and yes, I would like to see a commercials discussion board. I also enjoy the soundbytes you have sprinkled throughout the OTR page. I wish you could add more time to the various program's opening themes, to the commercials and also more time to the big band themes and tunes. Thanks for the great work you and the others do to make this site one that I tune into on a daily basis. - Nate |
| Lou Genco | 11/15/2000 1 replies |
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I wish you could add more time to the various program's opening themes, to the commercials and also more time to the big band themes and tunes.
Nate - those items are in the mix. As you guessed, the problem is finding time to make new snippets or replace the old, low-fidelity RealAudio soundbytes. Experiments are ongoing (and thus far successful) to use streaming, low-bitrate MP3s rather than streaming RealAudio for soundbytes at this site. The MP3 sound quality is better, when reproduced on cheap soundcards, but the stream may stutter if the connection is too slow (works OK with 56K modems, so far). Encourage Danny Goodwin to keep producing the OTR Commercial material. He might become the keeper of the notional OTR Commercial BBS if it ever happens. 73 de N5SGL Lou
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| Nate Williams | 11/19/2000 0 replies |
| Lou: What can I do to help you? What can we do to help you?? 73 |
| D. Bacca | 12/20/2000 0 replies |
| I`m sure that most of your readers and myself would greatly benefit from the information on a technical discussions board. Enjoy your excellent site very much. -Dan |
| Jim Stokes | 11/17/2000 1 replies |
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I would sure like to know about how they mixed OTR shows. Things like signal processing, equalization, microphones, and the like. There's tons of information on the performers. But not too much is discussed about what went on in the control room. Um, er, I was a board operator in the days when the engineer spun the records and transcriptions. heh. I don't mean what went on in the control room after the office staff went home.
Jim Stokes |
| Jim Stokes | 11/19/2000 0 replies |
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I'd like to post messages back and forth to people, like myself, who actually were in the radio biz back in the good old day. I have been able to e-mail only TWO people who were actually in the radio biz in the old days.
My life in the radio biz started in 1956 in local radio. So, I would surely like to have a discussion group with the old timers of that day and age. Those were the days of Ampex 300 FULL TRACK head decks! And my personal favorite, the Magnecord PT6. And I have four the them that run perfectly I fire them up every so often so the motor doesn't gum up and the metal and rubber parts get some exercise. There are a lot of devotees but not too many folks who were actually in the biz posting. And God bless the devotees. They are the folks that keep OTR alive in our hearts and minds. Jim Stokes |
| Joe Oliver | 12/4/2001 2 replies |
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Lou,
I'm not aware of an effective traders site any longer. Surely there is a need for one. The only site I know of appears dead in the water. It would probably take an established operation like your own to drive traffic to a traders site in numbers sufficient for it to be of any value. Joe |
| Lou Genco | 12/4/2001 1 replies |
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Joe -
"Effective" is a relative term. The OTR Traders site at http://otr-trader.com/ is a long-standing traders site, and is listed at my site. In addition, the Yahoo OTR club, http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/oldradioshowsonmp3 seems to invite trading-type posts. Also, Charlie Summers' Online OTR Digest (with thousands of subscribers) allows invitations to trade. There are a few newer OTR trade sites that seem to be languishing from lack of visitors. Some folks think that an unanswered invitation to trade is a personal slight ... but maybe there are fewer tape traders with shows others like. It seems that MP3 is the medium of choice today's online OTR fan, whether on CD-ROM or downloaded. Check my sponsor list for sources of inexpensive MP3s. Lou |
| Joe Oliver | 12/5/2001 0 replies |
| I guess my only interest in the subject was in wondering if tape trading was still an active pursuit among otr fans. At the first site you mention (The Traders site), it looks like there hasn't been a post since June. I've not traded in several years myself, and--even if I felt I had the time--I would not want to trade in the mp3 format. Maybe this is typical now. |