93.1 KMKT-FM Studio Tour "How It's Done" (2013) 

Recently the neighbor kid saw my RU-vid video and was shocked that I was living right next-door. He thinks I’m some kind of celebrity. So I’m ranked number one in the eight-year-old neighbor demo.

I need more studio tours like this in my life ❤️

What a "Golden Voice," Dan! Sounds so good!!

You are a rare breed my friend. Nowadays this stuff comes from new York and CLONED over 5000 Stations. Your keeping a American Art form alive. Great Job....

Dan, I remember back cueing the vinyl back in the day! 🙂 You really show how it's done, son!

Radio Djs have always been my heroes. Hope to be one myself someday.

Wow! 9 years have passed since this was aired. I remember when this video came out in 2014.

I came off the air about 10 yrs ago to be the full-time Production Director. Still working in the business I love, but Radio just ain't the same when you're not on the air doing what you see here, which is why we all got in to the biz :)

Watching this in 2022 🎧

Great voice!

great broadcasting done with a lovely flow .fantastic ....regards from the uk

That voice, that voice! I love his voice! If only I had a voice like that! Now I know why he loves to hear his own voice! I DJ twice a week at a local elementary school in Okinawa Japan but I'm nothing like that. Unfortunately the children and staff don't understand what I say but they love the ambience of a radio station. Cool stuff! Thanks for your video! Absolutely love it!!!

as a newbie i love this video, trying to learn from the great professional presenters. Thanks for the share

Nice job. I love to hear that style D.J. on the radio!

I really enjoyed this. This was amazing.

I'm loving it!

Thanks Dan. Awesome!

Thank you for the video I start at a studio in a small town tomorrow .

From one voice to another, 'tight board, great pipes!'. Fun to be reminded of the on-air days! (KFDX NBC 3 Image Voice)

It has been my Passion for Radio and does some stuff in front of a mirror in house and still got it...great stuff man.

LOVE that board...

Dan the man. you are a fabulous announcer. I love it that you do your show live to air, great voice and a great sense of humour. I also did some country radio DJ work up here in Canada. We used Scott Studios automation system but i always did live as much as i could. The CRTC up here in Canada requires our radio stations play 40 percent canadian content so our musical line up wasnt as dynamic as U S radio

Loved it!! Cheers! 🇨🇦🎉🫶

Thanks Dan, I hope you still working

Love the video, I am a radio dj myself on Sunday afternoons!

Great video!

I have such a Passion for Radio. I always have since I was a Kid. My life took me in a different path. I ended up as a Salesman for a Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Supply Company. But Last Year I did finally Graduate from American Broadcasting School. And I learned a lot about Radio. I would love to work in Radio Part Time. This Guy is doing Exactly what I would love to do.

Really cool video! Reminds me, and makes me miss my radio days. Good job!

I love seeing the radio wheel posted on the wall!

Great voice! :)

Man I really miss working at our local radio station! I think it’s something I’d do again soon! Love your show! Awesome voice!

This was very interesting!

From one "DJ" to another, you sound good Dan!

Great Video Thanks Dan only been on the radio for 28 weeks but good to see i'm doing things as you are Thanks

Really nice video and beautifully produced. Cheers Dan. Great work!

Thank you, Dan! Monday is going to be my first day presenting at a local radio station in Mexico, and your video is inspiring

I love the way you perform the show... Wowwwww

great voice congratulations

Great Job Dan, very interesting to see how it's done. thanks for the tour. Brian, Heilbronn Germany

Good job man

Indeed, that is how it is done. Good job.

Nice job, Dan. Thanks for the video. Wonderful peek at how the on-air studio and programming have changed since my last gig in '91. Be well, brother.

What a video! I guess I'm only 6 years late.. This is definitely one of the best videos around showing what actually goes on behind the microphone. Becoming a radio DJ is one of my (you could say many) career goals. I'm across the pond in the UK, but I can still appreciate the music and most of all your exceptional talent! Thanks again and keep DJing!

It's fun to see radio stations in action. I recently got an Audio Arts R60 Console just like that for my home studio. It's a wonderful broadcast console and still works great even after 25 years.

This is one of my favorite videos on RU-vid! Thank you, Dan! I really really love this video and your style! I really have this obsession on "chasing" spiels just before the first lyrics of the song. I work on a TV station in the Philippines, but I would really love to try a few DJ spiels.

Please do more of these vids!

Awesome. He is my idol as a host sine i have ONLY 2 years under my belt at age 68!

wow great voice nice....from here in the phillippines

nice work

Till now Dan Acree sounds so nice OMG

You sound perfect. love the turkey on ..

For a small market radio station KMKT does a real good job doing something extremely rare in broadcasting these days. They are LIVE and LOCAL real disc jockeys in a local studio. KMKT is on our dial most of the day. We enjoy the local programming...Pretty incredible equipment too, AudioVault (ain't cheap) EV microphones. Telos telephone Hybrid, nice toys for small market indeed and it's a great sounding station worthy of "playing" with the big kids in Dallas...

Awesome!!!!

Hi, Greetings from Argentina, very good program, I hear you man?

Dan, watching your video from Sanger Texas. Thanks for the info and insight. My Husband was a DJ back in the early 80's and they used tapes/cassettes that looked like big 8 tracks. It seems a lot easier in some ways to use a computer program.

Good work. Good voice on the RADIO..! Good air check. Nothin like small market radio.

This is the kinda job i want.Going to college in September to learn how to work in Radio.

I'm loving your radio board! The radio station I work for uses a classic 1980's RS board!

we located in the Virgin Islands GREAT VOICE (thumbs up)

Love the audio processing. Sounds like a CHR station.

I was searching for "old school radio DJs talking between songs" and found this video. Not bad, RU-vid. thanks! Listening to Spotify and iTunes aren't the same as terrestrial radios to be honest. There is no human touch when listening to mp3s.

Thanks, Tracy! Can you tell I'm having fun?

Awesome so cool Dan thank you for sharing and careing 😀 I love Carrie Underwood you play the Dixie Chicks

You have a great radio voice! My local radio station sold to someone new. Now it's not as local. Still have a small morning show, one host instead of two interacting. I definitely miss the noon and 5 news! (WDUX) we do have an LP station in town, too. May have to listen to it more now. Enjoy your career! Seems like you love it!

nice dj my dream

Working in this field since my high school days in the late 80s, I have seen so many changes. While my love for radio won't die, unfortunately the popularity has. I've seen mom and pops sell off to corporate and now sit fed with satellites that roll 24/7. I still work engineering, fixing, tuning transmitters, antennas, studio construction, etc. But I remember the finer days sitting at boards loading cart machines, cd players, cueing records on turntables and actually having to know how to tell time to back time the programming. Having the boss come visit and talk with me in the mornings between songs. Christmas parties and the prize vault made out of a refrigerator. During storms if we went off the air people called worried about us. Now when the xmitter goes down, no phone calls. No one cares. I hear stations that get knocked off and often they will be off until the next day. One station sat with an exciter carrier for YEARS in a old house with rotted roof. Mains had been down for nearly a decade and owner had exciter on antenna sitting with no programming. Finally FCC rendered license expired and was not renewed, Used to be a popular 50 Kw FM in the day.

good like you work!!

Howdy Dan 🙋‍♂️

The days of turntables etc are long gone eh lol ? You sound great Dan!

I haven't lived in Houston for a while, but I remember 96 KIKK, and 100 KILT. I wonder if those stations are still on the air.

god I want that shure sm7b. such a good mic

You sir have a phenomenal voice.

Enjoyed watching this. Most of the time I don't see you pressing any buttons when your record starts after you are finished talking?

Hey Dan Acree This Is Jermey McGuire I Listen To KKBQ 93Q On 92.9FM Here In Santa Fe, Texas.

Also, thought "He Stopped Loving..." was from 1980!

Wow, great pipes!! Could you tell me which mics you're using?? Looks look a RE20, but the shockmounts make me think it's a different mic.. Thanks! Great video!!

the sound or effects I don't know if it's a compressor or what but i love the sound

This is so cool ! I would love to have a job like this one day. What did you do to get here ,you should totally make a video of you talking about how you got there and kinda what u did as for school and all :)

This guy sounds the way a good DJ should sound! He has plenty of energy. I remember well, back cuing vinyl, back timing to the net, splicing tape and bulk erasing carts. I used that same board in my last commercial radio job back in the 80's! I never sounded as good as this guy but I did have fun!

Loved watching!

Your voice is amazing, can you give us a video on how to develop a radio voice?thanks

Na miss ko tuloy si trigerman. WLS fm.

Classic good announcer talk: (LOL) "Good to have yuh with you! KMKT 93.1 GOOD TO HAVE YEH WITH YEH!" lmao where was that demeanor really developed in a normal social setting before radio came about, i wonder.

what kind of mixing console is that in your studio?

I am a huge Phil Hendrie fan. He is a famous radio personality that I have followed for many years. I know that he uses radio studio items to do his show but one thing has puzzled me forever. He is known for doing a call in type show but the kick is that he plays the caller calling into the radio talk show, and it sounds like this caller is on the telephone. How does he rig the studio mixer to accommodate the use of a landline phone to allow him to act as a caller? I have heard him say that he uses a phone box? Do you know what he uses to be able to plug into the radio studio mixer? Is this available to the public? Thanks.

Hi, I would like to know what software you are using on your radio.

I Love VU meters. Wish they could fix the lights on the VU meters.

Dan does it the correct way, which is live, instead of voicetracking, as the big, station conglomerates tend to do instead of live. Live is where the magic is at and I believe listeners can tell the difference.

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE AUTOMATION SOFTWARE please tell me

HOLA AMIGO ME PODRIA DECIR DE DONDE SE DESCARGO LA MUSICA DE PRESENTACION DEL VIDEO ES QUE ME ENCANTA PAR PRESENTA UNA PROGRAMACION DE RADIO PRA LA HORA DE A RANCA LA EMISOR GRACIAS SALUDOS DESDE ESPAÑA

If you want to hear radio the way it SHOULD be done, listen to an Australian COMMUNITY station. The presenters on these stations are volunteers and the programmes they present are straight-forward WITHOUT hype or bullshit gimmicks! For this reason their audience really appreciates their efforts.

What file type did the radio station use for ripping music, or did the files get delivered to you from the recording studios.

You're smooth, brother. Interesting how you said, "We're gonna pump up the volume now!" then you accidentally preselected the slow song. I've done the same thing myself. More than once.

I'm in college for broadcasting and production technology I'll be on WDCC90.5FM The Beat. Right now I'm not doing any of my broadcasting classes

How we can get a "radio sound" like this with VST plugins ? Looks like a lot of Multiband compressors.

Is it weird dat I'm watching this on Fathers Day

may i ask what radio software did u use for the music ? i like the style of the player thanks 😊

A far cry from vacuum tube board with rotary pots with audition-off-program key switches, spot master cart machines, turntables and the teletype machine clattering away in its soundproof room where you could tear off copy for on the hour news. Evolution is real!

Hand on the playout channel fader all the time (but not doing much) - is that in case something interrupting or inappropriate unexpectedly comes up? I'm guessing that's for a reflex based on hard experience?

the compression is so much., its sounds dirty , notice the noise and the AGC when Dan speaks with no music..but i like it