So - I have all this stuff, and I did have a plan.. then I thought "What would other people do?", since I realize my ideas arent always the best.. or most creative.. or fun.. 🙂
Best plan becomes the new QOTR and QROK Stations. The idea is to have one OTR station and one Rock station.
- Behringer x2222usb
- Behringer Xenyx 302USB (arguably, this could be more of a usb audio interface than mixer)
- Gemsound CDM-150 (sort of a mixer - http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Gem-Sound-CDM150-Dual-CD-Player-with-Mixer/2222530/product.html)
- M-Audio MOBILEpre USB
- TASCAM US122
- MCM Line Level Converter 555-8485
- Stanton dual CD rack mount deck and controller
- Pair of Stanton t62's dd turntables
- Pioneer ancient 20 pound paperweight turntable that mostly works
- Consumer Grade Dual Cassette player/recorder
- Consumer GradeSingle CD Player (with no freakin countdown timer)
- Consumer Grade5 disk cd changer - also no countdown timer... wth?
- Rack Mount CRL Pre Emphasis SPF-300
- Rack Mount Gains Line Level Converter 8 channel
- Rack Mount DOD 32 channel EQ MONO
- Rack Mount Alesis 2 channel Limiter/Compressor
- Rack Mount BBE Sonic Maximizer
- Consumer grade stereo EQ
- iMac with RadioLogik
- HP 3GHz core2 duo 120gb ssd and Linux with Mixxx
- HP 3GHz core2 duo 60gb ssd and Linux
- HP 3GHz AMD64 with 500GB disk and 2GB ram acting as stream relay to shout cast
- Dell Optiplex Core2 Duo 4gb ram, 120gb ssd, 500gb spinny disk, Winders, Zara Radio
- A disco Light. Hell yes.
- Talking House 5.0 (just bought this a couple of days ago)
- Chez Radio Procaster
- BroadcastVision FM3001W FM Transmitter (just bought this a couple of days ago)
- AMT-3000 (still in kit form.. had this a couple of years now)
Get a second disco light.
Done. Also a mirror ball.
A brass pole might be good.
Might make my wife mad if I move it to the studio...
Unless she likes to dance.
Too many options can be bad.
Particularly when you're dealing with a radio signal on AM that starts getting noisy a few hundred feet out, and on FM is lucky to get a few hundred feet out (unless you're in Canada, or New Zealand, or a few other places). Plus, if you're streaming, you're not exactly dealing with high fidelity (likely fairly low bit rate MP3).
I like to collect odd pieces of equipment, but have decided to limit the broadcasting to a few, well known pieces. A Decade MS-100 on 99.7 FM (really, the only semi-open frequency where the transmitter is located), one computer to generate the audio (with everything prerecorded, from various sources) and one computer to act as a server and stream to the Internet. Backups for both, ready to go, in the event one goes down (I've learned the hard way).
Audio processing done by the computer that generates the audio. Both running Windows.
I think my signal sounds pretty good, both over the air and streaming.
And by keeping things relatively simple, I can concentrate on the programming, which is what I'm most interested in.
But to each their own.
I have got a fever, and the only prescription is some COW BELL! 🙂
For all that equipment you will need your own power plant, perhaps coal fired attached to your bar-b-que grill.
And Groo is on to something.... cow bells sound very good when amplitude modulated through a compressor.