ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to insert the contents of records, reel-to-reel tape, and tape cartridges into the program format. In its larger sense, a cue is a go-ahead signal in broadcasting. Relating this to recorded material, cuing a record or tape means preparing it on its playback machine so that it is ready to play at the operator’s instant demand. The recording is said to be cued-up. A fade is a potting operation, which at slow or diminished level is called a slow fade and at rapid speed and full level is called a fast fade. The cross-fade is a combination fade-in and fade-out between two records. A dead potted record, a record played on a closed pot, is used when a time factor is involved. To exacerbate the backtracking condition, some forms of music, such as rap music, deliberately move a record back and forth in the groove to create a swishing sound that is part of the music.
