GZS The Switchboard

There are masters down here for bands the label has not signed

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  1. Winifred Osmond The Vault

    6 posts

    #1 ·

    I am going to state this plainly because people keep finding out sideways and then coming to me upset about it.

    The Vault holds finished masters for acts that are not on the roster. Some of them are acts that have not recorded yet. I did not put them there, I do not know the mechanism, and I stopped asking in my second year because nobody above me had an answer that was better than mine.

    What I do is catalogue them. They are on the shelf, they are labelled, and they are not played. That last part is mine and it is not negotiable. A record that exists before its band does is not ours to broadcast.

    If your act signs here and there is already a master under your name, I will tell you, and I will let you listen to it alone in the room with the door shut. Two people have taken me up on that. One of them left the building and did not come back.

  2. Cy Renner The Studio

    6 posts

    #2 ·

    I have heard one. I am not going to say which. Winifred is correct that it should not go on the air and she has been correct about it longer than I have been here.

  3. M. Okafor

    5 posts

    #3 ·

    How many are down there.

  4. Winifred Osmond The Vault

    6 posts

    #4 ·

    More than the roster. I am not giving a figure because the figure moves and people take a moving figure as a story rather than as a filing problem.

  5. The Custodian Tower Maintenance

    11 posts

    #5 ·

    VAULT NOTE. Humidity and temperature in that room are held to spec continuously. Whatever the shelf means, it is not deteriorating.

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