VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Adam Verner · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:14 am Post subject: Recording: 70's style

Via Gaper's Block, someone just posted this old scan of some local Chicago studios, circa 1976. Awesome.

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bobsouer · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:46 am Post subject:

Adam,

Thank you. I was at Sound Market for a session a few years after that photo was taken.
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Deirdre · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:41 am Post subject:

Dang— looks like the equipment I learned on.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:33 am Post subject:

Some things never change. Engineers still wear plaid shirts.
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Ed Gambill · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:07 am Post subject:

Cerwin Vega monitors. Wake Forest University has four of them two flying and two on stage in Brendel Recital Hall.

Cerwin Vega provided the speakers used in the first Sensurround film, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensurround
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todd ellis · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:02 pm Post subject:

i worked on equipment JUST LIKE THAT! unfortunately is was in 1991

sigh.
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Drew · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject:

Bet if I looked, I'd find an old patch cable in one of my gear totes.
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Moe Egan · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject:

funny....for some reason when looking at that equipment, the first thing I thought was "I know just what that studio must have smelled like." Yes, it's odd, but true.
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Chris Ratliff · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

Bet that's a 1/4" reel to reel he's working. And man, dig that patch bay.
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Monk · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

sensaround..

that brings me back. Saw Tora, Tora, Tora that way.
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Gregory Best · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: more of the 70's...

These are from my radio days..

WKBO (Harrisburg, PA) about 1974 at the old location 31 N. 2nd. This is John St. John who is Micheal Ziants who owns Airlift Productions in New Orleans

notice the old timers, cart and reel to reel and 1938 board. I arrived at the new studios with a new board and other stuff.

this is Bob Alexander who was the Hobo Laughing

and creative energy behind the station:

this is me across town at WFEC in 1976 with a senhieser mic and old carts in the background. Love the hair...

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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

Man, I love these pictures.
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Chris Ratliff · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:32 am Post subject:

Hey Greg, that wouldn't happen to be an old Gates board you're crankin' on would it? Looks a awful lot like the one I used to work on... only this was in 1990... in radio hell. Literally. The station had partially burned and had been dark for about 3 years. The pots on the old Gates were all wobbly and warped from the heat! Ahhh.... my first days in radio. I remember them fondly. With pain. Laugh

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Gregory Best · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject:

It was a 1938 Western Electric console. I only used it in the production room at the new location where we had a newer board I think may have been a Gates rewired and modified by Gary McGill our resident genious engineer. I never worked at the old location. We had a lot of newer equipment at the nicer newer location. I am only in the color photo and can't find any of me at WKBO. I've lost a lot of tapes and pix over the years thru lots of moves (and several ex-wives). I got the b&w pix off Jeff Roteman's WKBO trbute site. Those b&w pix were in 1973 and didn't start at 'KBO until the fall of 1975 and the station had moved into its new studios and was a firm #1 in ratings so it could now afford newer diggs and equipment. New transmitter and tower with a new fangled folded dipole AM antenna too on City Island with the ground plain in the ground water pof the river which helped the 1000 watt AM signal. Those were the golden days of radio for me before the C**** Ch****** s of the world changed radio forever and not in a good way. I left radio for good in 1980 after starting part-time in high school at a local FM in Ottawa, Ill in 1967. (Edited for typos from tiny B-berry keyboad -- all thumbs, literally)
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Moe Egan · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

Wow. Great pictures Greg! Back when radio was fun. And Dude.....totally dig the hair!
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