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I thought I'd take the chance to show people the actual broadcast studio that Renegade Retro broadcasts out of, and the setup I do it all with.
Yes, it really is in my dining room...
The white computer on the top shelf that you can just see the bottom of is the actual station PC that runs the whole shebang. What you see on the screen is the broadcast software that controls every single thing you hear on the station except for the live voiceovers, which are fed in through the mic and mixing board. That software picks the music playing, handles the crossfading, the liners, the requests, normalizes the sound levels, encodes the broadcast and sends it out, everything. It's going to be getting a rather major hardware upgrade VERY soon, also.
This is my hobby. This is my baby. This is what I'll be losing if Congress doesn't repeal these royalty rate increases. And it's what you WON'T be seeing/hearing in that case.
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"I’m not fat. I’m larger than life."
While I should have probably put this in the CGR forum, I figured I may as well post it here where someone might actually SEE it and where it can be surrounded by like-minded posts.
This is my little corner of the world where I broadcast PAGZ from every month. This is what is looks like before I start. The rack to the left normally holds all the CDs I use during a show. Among some of the odder items on the broadcast desk you may notice are a can of Spam, two plastic buffalo (one of which is standing on the Spam), a dud artillery shell my grandfather brought home as a "souvenir" from World War II, and a plastic model of the Pro Football Hall Of Fame as it looked in the late 1970's.
And this is what it normally looks like during showtime. Note the red star between the two posters. That's a laser show I recently put up. It cycles through various shapes.
Finally, this is a closer look at the Numark CD Mix-1 and microphone I use to broadcast. No mp3s here, just CDs. I prefer to do the entire show by hand. It would probably be easier to go to all mp3s but I wouldn't enjoy myself as much. The clipboard has the songs for the entire show printed out on it (although the new format I've adopted requires more than one page now).
There you go...a little peek into my low-rated live show!
You see how hard we work to bring you these shows, people? Look at that technology! Look at those "I loved it...it was much better than 'Cats'...I'm going to see it again and again" slipmats! Look at that, um, green flashlight by Diofan's monitor! We rawk! Booyaa!
You see how hard we work to bring you these shows, people? Look at that technology! Look at those "I loved it...it was much better than 'Cats'...I'm going to see it again and again" slipmats! Look at that, um, green flashlight by Diofan's monitor! We rawk! Booyaa!
Yes! Remember folks...if a Lightbulb in the Metal Shop Studio goes out...Metal Shop will prevail under flashlight power! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!! High tech at it's best!!
"If you say you're going to do something and you start to do it, and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you."
You know, I was looking through these pictures again the other day and I finally realized what I like the most about the picture of Diofan's studio area.
It's the brightly shining CITY OF GLASS RADIO BANNER just as plain as day on his monitor. Way to go, dude. That's CLASS.
You know, I was looking through these pictures again the other day and I finally realized what I like the most about the picture of Diofan's studio area.
It's the brightly shining CITY OF GLASS RADIO BANNER just as plain as day on his monitor. Way to go, dude. That's CLASS.
You know, I was looking through these pictures again the other day and I finally realized what I like the most about the picture of Diofan's studio area.
It's the brightly shining CITY OF GLASS RADIO BANNER just as plain as day on his monitor. Way to go, dude. That's CLASS.
Look at your Sig NewRo! That's what was seen in my monitor!
Here's a couple pics of my new room/setup. Since the last pics I posted there are a couple changes. I cleaned up a computer desk/workstation that was in my old place's garage and my DJ equipment fits rather nicely onnit. Second, The Tascam mixing board I had in the last pics started shorting out mid-year last year so I bought a used backup mixer - the Stanton RM-80 (the silver center piece in the pics below). It has pretty much the same features as the Tascam, and I finally got a new crossfader for the unit a couple months ago. Third, for now I switched out the hypnotic Stanton slipmats for some blue crushed velvet ones. Finally, I got rid of the light-coloured shanty shelf unit and bought another that matches the dark-coloured unit full of 80's records:
This is the PC workstation during my show. I've had some cheap-ass lights from Spencer's for years and finally dusted them off and plugged them in. Although not as cool as NewRo's light show, it gives the room a small club/lounge feel:
One other plus about this new studio is that it stays MUCH cooler than the one in my old place.
Old Skool Stylez! 
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