Theater: My life

[vinyldavid]

When i am not in classes or at home, I practically LIVE in my school's theater (The tech booth, to be more exact), and I get to pla y with lights, sound and special effects whenever.

Anyone else know what I am talkin about?

my personal favorite job is running the sound board for plays and concerts.

I am also very good at spotlighting, having ran a R2R, cassette deck and 2 spotlights (seperate people being tracked) at one time, and did a good job with everything.

[Des-Lab]

I can respect that. Many of my closest friends when we were in school were involved with acting and the theater/drama departments. I never really was. In school, I was on the swim team.

But when I went to college, I was heavily involved with the radio station. I loved playing with the reel to reel decks (that's where I first got to use an Otari, and where I learned the hard way about half-track versus quarter track when, needing a blank, I inadvertantly erased about ten minutes of a valuable recording when I thought I was recording on 'the blank side').

I was really into it. I really impressed the professor/station 'manager' because I was good at cutting tape and was the first student he'd seen in years that knew what a demagnetizer was. The one thing I didn't like was that in order to have that kind of access and postion with the station, a prerequisite was you had to have an 'on-air' "show" where, for three hours, you sat there playing Disc Jerky. We had to tell time, read news, play PSA's, log the playlists and FCC mandated signal readings, and all of that other college radio station BS. I never liked it. As now, back then, I didn't have what you would call much of a 'radio personality', though I did play most of the songs I liked. So I always thought my 'shows' were kind of corny. And that part of the job, I didn't particularly care for. In due time, I wrapped up my 'studies' and moved on. I did have plenty of good memories there. But I began to realize that I wouldn't be happy working in radio unless it was as a sound engineer and cutting tape. In all honesty, some of the things I saw in that industry are what scared me away from it. So I ultimately went down a completely different career path. But tape has always been a passion and I still love it as a hobby.

Although I air checked every single one (the stack of tapes is still in a closet at my dads house), I won't play them or even let my wife listen to them. Frankly, I should've disposed of them years ago. But what can I say? I am a pack rat.

[vinyldavid]

Nice des!

I, for one, had to laugh, when I saw a new-looking tape eraser on the trash cart (where I got my Akai GX912 and some other sun stuff), and I asked if I could have it, and they said "NO! It'll ERASE YOUR COMPUTER LIKE IT DID MINE!"

Only then did I realize that they had forgotten what it was. :D

I would love to be on the radio, as I have a radio voice (and face, for that matter), and I ahve an extremely broad taste in music, plus technical experience.

Just FYI, sometime I will be asking how to edit live tape, as at my high school, they do Seinor Goodbyes, and this year in Audacity I did a cut of my voice interspersed with Also Sparach Zarathustra.

nest year, I want to do onw with Fanfare For The Common man, just on TAPE, and kinda show off a little....