Topic How is Anderson so quick with the drops?
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Anyone ever worked in radio or engineering/recording that can maybe tell how Anderson finds the drops so quickly especially when they are so relevant to the conversation (which is pretty much 100% of the time). All these years later and this still blows my mind. Could it be a search bar he enters keywords into? It’s hard to imagine them all laid out on a monitor since there’s so many. I’d love to hear some theories or hopefully a solid answer. Thanks
One time he meant to play a “dick” drop (“He’s a dick” or something) and instead played Dickie from the Bosstones doing his “WAAAAH” scream. So whatever the machine was, it must have had a lot of buttons with alphabetized labels. He went for “dick” and accidentally hit “Dickie.”
This post has received 1 vote up.Has anyone with experience in radio, engineering, or recording ever wondered how Anderson quickly finds relevant drops during conversations? It’s mind-boggling how he does it every time. Could he use a search bar with keywords, or are all the drops laid out on a monitor? With so many drops, it’s hard to imagine. Share your theories or insights. Thanks!”
This post has received 1 vote down.Some talk about drops with Anderson via the link here: https://lovelinetapes.com/community/topic/anderson-and-bryan-discuss-loveline/#post-69180
This post has received 1 vote down.My guess is he had them all macro’d to keyboard shortcuts and just memorized them. I’m sure a big company like Westwood (N)One had at least halfway decent computer systems optimized for that very thing. Certainly some kind of DAW system too like Pro Tools or Audition where audio could be recorded live then chopped up and made into individual drops or for Best Of shows.
Fun fact: “drops” actually used to be recorded to short looped cassette tapes called “carts.” You had to have each individual audio drop physically recorded to the cart you wanted to play and have tall the carts queued up just right. In the analog world you had to be a lot quicker on your feet! Like everything, as things went digital, drops just became computer files that could be saved to a hard drive and pulled up at the push of a button or mouse click.
You can actually tell from older shows sometimes when Mike or Anderson were still using analog cassette drops because you can occasionally hear a tiny bit of pitch bend from the tape being played (if the engineer hits play while there’s still silence on the tape you won’t hear this but if they’re a little later into the actual signal on it you get that slightly warped sound). I estimated it was around 1999/2000 when W.O. switched from analog to digital audio systems in their studio.
What was never clear to me (or seemingly Adam/Drew as well) was precisely when Anderson was actually recording and when he wasn’t, but I’m guessing it’s just how much he felt like participating in the banter of a show on any given night. If he wanted to get in on it more he probably just had to be following along more closely and actively recording during any calls/bits he thought might be funny.
Anyway, I’ll stop nerding out about audio stuff now, if anyone has anything to add or corrections to anything I said feel free to post em! Glad this site is back up and running, too.
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