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(electronic)
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(51 minutes) 40MB
Bands should arrive at 9PM at the very latest. Soloists can arrive at 10PM.
Guests must be completely set up and ready to play for sound-check at 10:30PM.
The radio station is on the fifth (5th) floor of the University Center building at Carleton University. Consult the MAP section.
If you can not read maps, hire a taxi to get to the radio station on the night of your appearance.
[I love this question.]
Guests can park in the following places:
Parking is free on campus in the middle of the night. Vehicles can not be left overnight in the loading dock. The radio station, its staff and Charles Anthony can not be held responsible for the vehicles of guests.
If you want to get on the show, CONTACT Charles Anthony.
The guests are booked more than one week in advance. Check the full SCHEDULE to see what dates are available.
[Oddly, I get this question very frequently and it never ceases to amaze me! The answer seems quite obvious.]
Several. The show is going on three years with different guests each week. All of the previous guests are listed alphabetically in the ARCHIVES section.
All styles of music are featured.
From professionals to fresh amateurs, guests of all levels of experience and skill are featured.
As a side note, the most enjoyable performances have been from guests who enjoy playing music. The worst shows have been from guests who think they are superstars or think they will soon become superstars.
Gear should be loaded through the University Center loading dock. Consult the MAP section to find the loading dock. Vehicles can not be left overnight in the loading dock. This is what should be done:
Bring comfortable headphones with 1/4 inch jacks and whatever gear you bring for a regular club gig.
Each musician will be wearing headphones as monitors. At least once before the show, guests are encouraged to rehearse while wearing headphones if they have no prior experience doing so. The radio station has headphones but they are designed for monitoring talk radio as opposed to performing music.
We have DIs but you should still bring an amp to act as your monitor. Do not rely on plugging into the DI and listening exclusively to your instrument through the headphones. Bass players should bring:
If you have your own microphones and cables that you prefer using, you should bring them.
You do not need to bring microphone stands.
If someone needs a music stand, bring it. The station does not have stands to hold up lyrics, scripts, songlists or speeches.
The choice of gear to bring should reflect the fact that it will not be necessary to play loud. The listeners will be enjoying the performance through the FM radio transmission as opposed to the reverberation through the studio walls.
The studio space is smaller than a stage, so it is not necessary to bring gear for a stadium concert. Neil-Peart drum kits can stay home. Stacks and stacks of Marshall stacks are excessive.
The format is casual.
The guests set up their gear in the studio. At 11PM, the host, Charles Anthony announces them. They introduce themselves and play. There is a brief interview throughout pauses in the performance.
Listen to the show to get an idea of the format.
[Believe it or not, somebody asked this question.]
This is college radio. There is no studio audience. Leave costumes and make-up at home.
The performance is only visible to the show host, Charles Anthony, who is also the producer and sound engineer. There is no video recording nor is there a webcast.
Yes, you can bring your records but they will not be played during your live set. Recorded music must be played after your live set.
Please, no.
Out of profound respect to independent musicians and the volunteers who work hard at community radio to promote the local scene, the answer is negative. Likewise, out of profound disrespect to the distorted commercial music market and its unfair advantage, the answer is very negative.
Nothing.
This is a non-paying gig. CKCU 93.1 FM Radio Carleton is a volunteer-operated community campus radio station with a shoe-string budget. The radio station can not afford to pay even an honorarium to the guests. Charles Anthony is a volunteer.
If you are expecting to be paid to promote your own music, hire a promoter and pay the promoter to get you paying gigs elsewhere on other radio stations.
No.
Yes, but the videographer can not get in the way. The studio space is small. Also, I can guarantee that the lighting will be very poor.
I have no idea. This is college radio, not commercial radio. We focus on quality, not quantity.
Commercial radio stations pay polling agencies to "estimate" numbers of listeners so that they may fool potential advertizers into thinking the commercial station has a large captive audience. College radio stations are not allowed to sell commercial advertizing as are commercial stations. Connect the dots.
Radio Carleton CKCU 93.1 FM has a proud reputation of being the oldest campus community radio station in Canada and thus, does not try to "prove" to potential advertizers or sponsors that the station has a large audience.
The Ogg Vorbis format is completely free, open-source, unpatented and a superior sound quality to most common audio formats. If your proprietary software is old and does not play high quality audio file formats, learn to download the appropriate codec or get a better audio player. Thus, poor quality, patented and proprietary audio formats are not worthy to be the archived media for the one-of-a-kind "Ottawa Live Music" radio program. There is no excuse for any modern audio player that can not play the superior Ogg Vorbis format.
