Radio Aircheck, whaat?

That's right, readers, I had to do an aircheck. Let me tell you this for free: It was not that fun.

First of all, my station that I was reporting from was a Love station. I know! You're thinking 'are you serious?' Well, sadly, yes, I am very serious. I had to play songs by Celine Dion and such. That was not my idea of good music, but hey, I'll bring it to the people if that's what they want.

And before you ask, no, I wasn't really on the air. I was safely tucked away in the DMT studio all aloney on my owny. But unfortunately, every mistake I made was recorded onto a CD that I get to keep forever. For the rest of my life. Hopefully it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

Second, I should have practiced more. When I went to cue the second song (Love Is All You Need - The Beatles) I accidentally pushed the On Air button. The correct term escapes me right now (unless that is really what it is called). Anyway, I hit the on air button and The Beatles song started to play over Angel Eyes (an easy listening song. No words. You catch my drift.) and that was just a disaster in itself.

Third and last, I paused way too often. I just wasn't prepared at all, which is a shame really. It could have turned out really nicely if I didn't stutter and say 'um' all the gosh darn time. The cues were all messed up because I was trying to focus on something else. Actually, I don't know why there are such long pauses in between the songs because I mixed and it sounded perfect when I was in the studio). Perhaps something weird happened while it was recording, I have no idea. I do, however, know that when I was talking or when I was about to talk, I could have fixed that easily by not freaking out.

I used to be interested in a job like this, but I think I've changed my mind. It's so much work to have to mix and push all these buttons and talk at the same time without an assistant, or something. I didn't like the experience and I don't think I want to ever do this again.

Now Announcing A PSA

Before Holiday break my DMT class was told to make a public service announcement for the upcoming open house that St Clair County Tec is holding in February. We were allowed to have one partner to help with the project. My partner happened to be my good friend, Jenette.

At the very beginning, I address parents and students in the eighth through tenth grades, I only addressed students because sometimes they can't help but to listen to older radio stations (like the one this will be broadcasted on if I win the contest) when their parents are in the car. Next, after the introduction, Jenette and I explain that Tec classes are three hours long and the students will be given three credits to make up from the loss of time from their Home Schools. (which is great, because Tec is fun. Sometimes.) We gave the date of the open house, February 3rd, and the time of the function, 5:30 to 8 pm. Just in case some people were unfamiliar with the Tec center, we gave the address as well as the date and time.

We joke that the experience looks good on college applications, because that seems to be all that parents are interested in after you hit high school. (It helps that it's true.)

I wish we had had enough time to talk about what kinds of programs were at Tec, and such.

The only thing I can complain about is recording. It was very difficult trying to record these sections to have as little as mistakes as we could. It seems like I always whine about recording, but I just don't like it.