Day #12 - 10/27/97 - 3:35PM

I finished putting our aircheck together today and I did it all on my computer. Back in prehistoric times, B.C., Before Computers, if you wanted to put an aircheck together your destiny was at the graces of the station that had just fired you. If you were lucky, they'd let you come in during off-hours and use their studio. Of course, they'd watch you like a hawk just to make sure you didn't do something awful like try to put their tape decks in your pocket and abscond with them.

This is the first time I've had to put an aircheck together for a job in about 7 years...and technology is smiling on us!

Using CoolEdit and Goldwave, two really decent shareware audio editors, I was able to easily dub 15 minutes of an aircheck to my computer and then clean it up for presentation.  The finished product is 9:43 seconds and takes up about 150 million bytes. That's a big freakin' file! I'm using the computer to play back the finished aircheck through my soundcard to my casette deck for dubs.

...Sent out 5 tapes today to consultants and a PD who requested one.