[BC] Splicing

[Broadcast List USER]

I never heard any complaints, mostly because most people didn't know  
about the album cuts.

Some of our jocks made money by making the cuts, the the record  
company made it into the "radio cut."

The issue I had trouble with was speeding up the record.

We started dubbing many cuts to cart at normal speed, but kept turning  
it up.  Pretty amazing.

--chip

On Nov 21, 2010, at 3:03 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 8
> From: "Carl Strathmeyer" <cstrathmeyer at comcast.net>
>
> I have mentioned before on this list that I was a summer vacation  
> relief
> engineer for KQV in Pittsburgh during college. This was the late  
> 1960s, and
> KQV was the ABC O/O top-40 station in town. They wanted to satisfy two
> conflicting goals: (1) play lots of songs to keep the teen listeners  
> happy,
> and (2) leave lots of time open for money-earning spots. The PD's  
> answer was
> to shorten the songs. Unfortunately, this was the era of really long  
> album
> cuts. One of my jobs these several summers was to take new releases  
> (for
> example, Beatles tunes from Sergeant Pepper) and get them down to  
> under 90
> seconds. I did that by splicing out entire verses and choruses in  
> the manner
> Tom described. Done well, you couldn't hear the splices. You would  
> have
> thought the studio released a special extra-short mix directly off the
> master tape. I used to ride the city bus home, and I'd hear the teens
> complaining (vehemently) that the station wasn't playing the full  
> album
> version. I just sank into my seat and didn't announce that I was  
> personally
> the culprit!