On 10/28/21 4:52 AM, Chuck wrote:
On Mo, 25 Oct 2021 10:11:02 -0700
Mike Carroll mailto:druidl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
To add to Fred's comments about the Fades: Ideally a station would modify
their songs for trims, fades, and levels before they are brought into
Rivendell. So the only thing the playback system would need to know about
is segue points. However, that's a lot of work for us small stations, so
we take the easier way out and use the RDLibrary controls.
Adding a +1 for this comment. I am no longer in the commercial end of
the business, but rather, with a non-comm; however, I would think the
fade up and down ability is more important than ever. The 2 biggest
radio chains operating in town have eliminated the job of production
director and the production studios are no longer maintained with
their switch to contract engineers, who are only called when something
in the main studio dies completely. Whereas the production director
used to comb and massage every bit of audio that was carted, including
the segue cue at a cart’s end, audio is now added with no production
pre-prep at all.
Although out of original topic... this comment has caught very much my
attention.
I don't work, directly (although I do indirectly, since I'm in charge of
cloud/networking operations, mostly streaming services) with/for radio
stations, but my colleagues of the automation-systems do... and I'm very
much interested in their talks and experiences, and, from quite a long
time, an important part of their comments go in that direction: costs
saving via maximize efficiency, being a main way to achieve that by
moving from more, specialized job profiles, to less, more flexible
profiles paired with more automated/integrable/flexible tools... and
this is having a HUGE impact in the radio automation market (AFAIK, here
in Spain and parts of Latin America... some rumours of France somehow
the same)
And that puts the radio automation system right on the spot, more
specifically, the INTEGRATED MULTI-TRACK EDITOR feature... to the point
that a few EU companies here (AEQ, Dalet, XFrame) along with RCS and
OmniPlayer are getting the upper hand (with competitors such Hardata
rushing to implement that) with contracts falling by absence/presence of
that fancy feature. I barely know about it but it seems that it allows
changing internal workflows, thus, enabling job cuts is that the
trend around?
Best regards.
In fact, we do not have a production department, either. We don’t
play the count-off or extraneous studio talk prior to the musical
start of any song (except for “Daydream Believer”), and we fade out of
any applause quickly. All that is done with the fade up and down
markers. I would think with the contraction of jobs in commercial
radio the ability to fade within Rivendell would be more important
today than in the past, when everything on-air, first passed through a
production department.
--Chuck
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