Squeaky Digitization
This evening I digitized another original unedited "recording session" from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "archives". It was the complete three-hour edition of "Orbit's Independent Sampler" as originally aired on KNLU (now KEDM) radio on Sunday, August 18,1985 at 4:00pm central, hosted by Dennis Goodwin. I bought music from Dennis' local record store back in the day. I'd record his bi-weekly university station radio show, then split it up into half-hour segments, add a new theme music, and put those edited versions on the weekly Tape and Record Show Enterprises "pretend radio show" schedule, cutting out any "topical" announcements, since by the time the edited versions were on the TRSE schedule, any announcements would be WAY out of date, especially on later "reruns" we would "broadcast" of the episodes.
This complete episode gave me a bit of a "headache" during the digital transfer. The first of the two 90-minute audio cassettes (a normal bias Maxell) developed the notorious "sticky tape" syndrome, causing an annoying "squeal" during a good portion of the recording. I rewound/fast forwarded the tape several times, beat it against the desk, it helped "somewhat", but I still couldn't get rid of all the "squeal", so the first half of the show sounds as good as I could get it to sound. The already transferred "edited" half hours containing the content don't have the squeal, probably since they were played occasionally, for reruns over the years and the digitization. The "master tapes" from the original KNLU airings were played once back in the 80's, to dub the edited half hours, then stored in a closet for nearly 40 years. Luckily the second half of the recording, on a TDK D-90, played fine.
In this episode, Dennis announces his record store will be closing August 31, 1985. This makes the fourth complete original KNLU broadcast I've digitized so far. The TRSE edited half hours from this broadcast were "aired" on the pretend schedule on October 8/15/22, 1986, November 5/12/19, 1986, over a year after the original actual radio broadcast, thus the "topical" stuff being edited out.
This complete episode gave me a bit of a "headache" during the digital transfer. The first of the two 90-minute audio cassettes (a normal bias Maxell) developed the notorious "sticky tape" syndrome, causing an annoying "squeal" during a good portion of the recording. I rewound/fast forwarded the tape several times, beat it against the desk, it helped "somewhat", but I still couldn't get rid of all the "squeal", so the first half of the show sounds as good as I could get it to sound. The already transferred "edited" half hours containing the content don't have the squeal, probably since they were played occasionally, for reruns over the years and the digitization. The "master tapes" from the original KNLU airings were played once back in the 80's, to dub the edited half hours, then stored in a closet for nearly 40 years. Luckily the second half of the recording, on a TDK D-90, played fine.
In this episode, Dennis announces his record store will be closing August 31, 1985. This makes the fourth complete original KNLU broadcast I've digitized so far. The TRSE edited half hours from this broadcast were "aired" on the pretend schedule on October 8/15/22, 1986, November 5/12/19, 1986, over a year after the original actual radio broadcast, thus the "topical" stuff being edited out.