I listened to the radio with my mother! Ahhh i still remember the late 50's early 60's. My dad went to bed early because he got up at 3 am for work. The rest of the family would sit in the large drawing room where the large floor model radio was up against the far outside wall. My mother sat in her chair up against the opposite wall chain smoking her Pall Mall's in one hand and drinking her Stroh Beer with the other while me and my siblings sat on the large throw rug in the middle of the floor in front of the radio. As the shows played, the room would slowly fill with the smoke from her smoking one cigarette after another with little more than one second between extinguishing one cigarette butt and lighting another and her gentle yelling for one of the kids to get here another beer or to turn the radio to another channel. It wasn't until my older bother went into the Marine and my mother demanded my father buy a TV that we had one, must have been 68 or 69. The Radio was still in the drawing room, no longer played and sat alone collecting dust. Now my father stayed up a little longer so he could watch the news, as my brother was in Vietnam. The TV was in the front room located on the inner wall while my parents sat on their couch that was up against the outer wall and me and my siblings sat on the floor just in front of the couch watching the News with my parents and then Bob Barker on the TV version of Truth or Consequences. My mother chain smoking her Pall Mall's in one hand and drinking her Stroh Beer with the other while my father competed with my mother to see who would get the last beer. As the room slowly filled with smoke, we, the children of this house, were constantly changing channels, upping the volume or turning it down or running to the kitchen to open a bottle of beer to bring to my parents. I remember those old day with fondness. I never drank or smoked, wonder why? And when my kids were born we had remote controls for the TV's, so they never got the privileged of having to change channels constantly for me, but what they did have to do, is find that Damn remote because it would get lost every time I wanted it! Randy
The audio on shows are edited to the maximum volume on my computer to where I get the best sound quality with as little distortion as possible. If a show needs the sound to be turned up I turn it up it as best as i can trying not to over drive it and distort the audio even worse. Some time its just not possible to fix the audio where its anywhere near perfect. I am dealing with non professional grade equipment and audio software, thus my abilities to clean up a audio file are very limited. This particular episode was originally recorded for over the air broadcast nearly 57 years ago and most of CBSRMT are of a re-recording from the radio, onto analog audio tape during that time as it was broadcasted (from what I heard). In other words a re-tape of a taped show grabbed from an over the air broadcast which was most likely a copy of the original show sent to each station for broadcast to start with. Analog and not digital, which means each copy degraded with each copy of a copy. We are talking about recording equipment that might have been state of the art in 1977 but certainly not today. Many of the first transfers from tape to digital format back in the 90's when I started RandysOldTimeRadioShows.com were of terrible quality. The computers back then were too slow to keep up with the conversion leaving blurps through the newly created digital copy. I still find these junk files from time to time and am still working on fixing them. Then, UA-cam also reconverts the files on their end and I have noticed on some uploads a change in audio and video quality. I listened to some of this particular episode just now and I can tell the audio has been driven quite a bit and its right on the edge of maximum audio loudness without making it to hard to listen to. If I had more professional editing software I might be able to do a better job of audio correction but that software is extremely expense and requires a much better computer that what I have to handle the conversions on a professional level. Since UA-cam will not let me monetize the channel, I have to rely on Subscriber's for their support to the site to be able to upgrade my equipment. But in the 2 years I have been uploading shows to this channel, nearly 6000 people have subscribed, and only 2 have donated support to the site, which i am very grateful to. I do the best I can with what software and equipment I have. Understand I'm not complaining that the lack of support on the site, or that support is piratically non existent, it is what it is. There are a good number of other channels out there putting out OTR as I do. I will continue to do my best with the equipment and software I have to make listening as enjoyable as possible. Currently I have over 2500 shows uploaded to this channel and I continue to convert and upload shows daily with around 47000 more in my collection to convert. it's a process and it's a one man operation. At 70 my health is not the best, but I keep going like the Energizer Bunny! I appreciate your comment.....Randy
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I listened to the radio with my mother!
Ahhh i still remember the late 50's early 60's.
My dad went to bed early because he got up at 3 am for work. The rest of the family would sit in the large drawing room where the large floor model radio was up against the far outside wall. My mother sat in her chair up against the opposite wall chain smoking her Pall Mall's in one hand and drinking her Stroh Beer with the other while me and my siblings sat on the large throw rug in the middle of the floor in front of the radio. As the shows played, the room would slowly fill with the smoke from her smoking one cigarette after another with little more than one second between extinguishing one cigarette butt and lighting another and her gentle yelling for one of the kids to get here another beer or to turn the radio to another channel.
It wasn't until my older bother went into the Marine and my mother demanded my father buy a TV that we had one, must have been 68 or 69.
The Radio was still in the drawing room, no longer played and sat alone collecting dust.
Now my father stayed up a little longer so he could watch the news, as my brother was in Vietnam.
The TV was in the front room located on the inner wall while my parents sat on their couch that was up against the outer wall and me and my siblings sat on the floor just in front of the couch watching the News with my parents and then Bob Barker on the TV version of Truth or Consequences.
My mother chain smoking her Pall Mall's in one hand and drinking her Stroh Beer with the other while my father competed with my mother to see who would get the last beer. As the room slowly filled with smoke, we, the children of this house, were constantly changing channels, upping the volume or turning it down or running to the kitchen to open a bottle of beer to bring to my parents.
I remember those old day with fondness. I never drank or smoked, wonder why? And when my kids were born we had remote controls for the TV's, so they never got the privileged of having to change channels constantly for me, but what they did have to do, is find that Damn remote because it would get lost every time I wanted it! Randy
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The audio on shows are edited to the maximum volume on my computer to where I get the best sound quality with as little distortion as possible. If a show needs the sound to be turned up I turn it up it as best as i can trying not to over drive it and distort the audio even worse. Some time its just not possible to fix the audio where its anywhere near perfect.
I am dealing with non professional grade equipment and audio software, thus my abilities to clean up a audio file are very limited. This particular episode was originally recorded for over the air broadcast nearly 57 years ago and most of CBSRMT are of a re-recording from the radio, onto analog audio tape during that time as it was broadcasted (from what I heard).
In other words a re-tape of a taped show grabbed from an over the air broadcast which was most likely a copy of the original show sent to each station for broadcast to start with. Analog and not digital, which means each copy degraded with each copy of a copy. We are talking about recording equipment that might have been state of the art in 1977 but certainly not today. Many of the first transfers from tape to digital format back in the 90's when I started RandysOldTimeRadioShows.com were of terrible quality.
The computers back then were too slow to keep up with the conversion leaving blurps through the newly created digital copy. I still find these junk files from time to time and am still working on fixing them.
Then, UA-cam also reconverts the files on their end and I have noticed on some uploads a change in audio and video quality.
I listened to some of this particular episode just now and I can tell the audio has been driven quite a bit and its right on the edge of maximum audio loudness without making it to hard to listen to.
If I had more professional editing software I might be able to do a better job of audio correction but that software is extremely expense and requires a much better computer that what I have to handle the conversions on a professional level.
Since UA-cam will not let me monetize the channel, I have to rely on Subscriber's for their support to the site to be able to upgrade my equipment. But in the 2 years I have been uploading shows to this channel, nearly 6000 people have subscribed, and only 2 have donated support to the site, which i am very grateful to.
I do the best I can with what software and equipment I have.
Understand I'm not complaining that the lack of support on the site, or that support is piratically non existent, it is what it is. There are a good number of other channels out there putting out OTR as I do.
I will continue to do my best with the equipment and software I have to make listening as enjoyable as possible.
Currently I have over 2500 shows uploaded to this channel and I continue to convert and upload shows daily with around 47000 more in my collection to convert. it's a process and it's a one man operation. At 70 my health is not the best, but I keep going like the Energizer Bunny!
I appreciate your comment.....Randy