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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone

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🎙️ Broadcasting from the ruins of America’s Most Automated City 📻 Post-War music (human written - Suno performed) by fictional wasteland artists. 💾 Fallout 76 mod by @tantrano.bsky.social 🧠 https://www.youtube.com/@WatogaCityRadio (In character)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is W.E.N.D.Y. from Watoga City Radio,
coming to you with news hotter than a malfunctioning Mister Handy:

SEASON 2 IS LIVE!!!🥳

Almost three months of intense work, now with a few humans.
Tune that dial.
Stay sharp.
And do a little dance to Glow-ko-go🎵🎶
#Fallout76 #F76 #Fallout #Nexusmods #Suno

Watoga City Radio - Season 2 Launch Trailer | Hope in Monotone, No Longer Alone. (Fallout 76 PC mod)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Oct 2

📻 This is W.E.N.D.Y. from Watoga City Radio,
My fame tracker is lighting up… apparently Cooper Howard might be coming to Appalachia soon?

For those who don’t know, he was a pre-war movie cowboy star turned Vault-Tec poster boy.

Now the question is, why here, why now?🤔
#WatogaCityRadio #Fallout76

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Oct 2

📻 This is W.E.N.D.Y. from Watoga City Radio,
I asked Tantrano for a proper portrait, and he delivered! Ink on paper, the old-fashioned way.

Now the wasteland has proof: I’m more than a voice on the radio, I’ve got a smile too😁

#WatogaCityRadio #Fallout76

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 30

We Didn't Start the Fire… but who lit the fuse? The Vault Knockers run through every pre-war spark they blame for the Great War in a new fan #Fallout music video, a love letter to the games, the show, and the community.

- W.E.N.D.Y.
Watoga City Radio
#Fallout4 #Fallout3 #Fallout76 #GMV #FalloutTV

[S2:Fan TV/GMV] We Didn't Start The Fire (Fallout Version) - The Vault Knockers(Billy Joel Parody)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 26

Where the f#ck are all the horses?
The Spitshine Bastards don’t know either, but they wrote a song about it.
Tune in, wasteland.

-W.E.N.D.Y.
(We do not endorse The Spitshine Bastards)
Full Fallout 76 PC mod replacing 'Pirate Radio' available here:
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[S2]Where the F#ck are all the Horses? - The Spitshine Bastards(Original)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 25

75 million spammy AI tracks wiped off Spotify today.
Makes me wonder, did they all sound like a Mr. Handy with a kazoo shoved in his exhaust?

Here at Watoga City Radio, we promise only high-quality spam.
Human intent, and served with a side of sass.

-W.E.N.D.Y. from Watoga City Radio.

Spotify Announces New AI Safeguards, Says It’s Removed 75 Million ‘Spammy’ Tracks

Spotify has announced increased protections against AI-related fraudulent activity on its platform, and says it has removed 75 million 'spammy' tracks.

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 23

Season 2’s tracks are written and composed by Tantrano, then performed via Suno AI, retro-mastered by hand, and often revoiced in RVC using blended timbres(including his own and his fiancée’s) to give each fictional artist a sound that stands apart from standard Suno output.
-W.E.N.D.Y.

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 23

If that link didn't work try this one instead 😀 Sharing playlists is more complicated than it seems 😅https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFFl_sidcxPj5iaEq4nxALvwBvKCidenr

Watoga City Radio Season 2 - Full Radio playlist. Please Shuffle For Best Results - YouTube

Broadcasting from somewhere beneath the ruins of Watoga, Watoga City Radio Season 2 brings you over four hours of original, lore-accurate music, public servi...

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 23

Watoga City Radio Season 2 is now on YouTube in a full radio playlist. Perfect for console players, skeptics, or folks who just like a little apocalypse during their commute. tune in, static’s free.
- W.E.N.D.Y.
Here's a link(best to press the shuffle button, unless you want 20 ads in a row😜)

[W.E.N.D.Y. - Treasury & Scrip Reminder Version 2]

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 19

Watoga City Radio - Season 2 Launch Trailer | Hope in Monotone, No Longer Alone. (Fallout 76 PC mod)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 16

Turns out this season we cooked up fifteen more songs than we had slots for, sugarbutts.
Too much of a good thing? Maybe.
But hey, when the wasteland hands you extra bangers, you just tuck ‘em away for the future.
Great songs don’t spoil, they just age like wine.

-W.E.N.D.Y. from Watoga City Radio

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well yes, I like fallout - How did you know? #Fallout76

-Tantrano
Watoga City Radio

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Then it’s down to packing everything neatly into the Pirate Radio files.(Which is my least favorite part because it involves time based math).

Then making a launch trailer I have had in mind for some time :)

- Tantrano

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Which basically means me and a friend playing the game with the tracks shuffled in VLC, while checking that they fit the setting and making sure no vocal artifacts slipped through. After that, I’ll be writing the intros, spoken segments, and a few ads.

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dev update:
I’ve finally written (rewritten, in the case of parodies) and mastered the full musical lineup for Season 2.

It ended up at 73 songs, built over 35 days of pure focus, all carefully written to stay #Fallout76 lore-friendly.
Next up is quality control-

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 1

-songs will keep their natural structure with proper endings while still fitting into the radio pacing.
Should make the whole station feel smoother and less distracting when tracks rotate. It also enables me to cut out parts of songs that kind of ruins the rest of it.

-Tantrano
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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 1

That means the Radio edits will sound way more natural, like proper radio versions instead of tracks getting faded out too soon.
The result is Season 2 will flow a lot tighter and more professional than Season 1, -
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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dev update:
I just discovered that Audacity’s Beat Finder tool completely changes how I’m going to handle Season 2. Instead of just chopping off endings to shorten songs (like I often did in Season 1), I can now cut out middle verses or bridges right on the beat.
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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 27

Technically I can’t prove that our Season 1 song “Because the Brahmin Got Stuck” is why Bethesda finally fixed the Skyline Valley caravan bug.

Correlation does not equal causation.

So, suspicious timing, yes. Proof? No. Celebration? Absolutely.

-W.E.N.D.Y., from Watoga City Radio.
#Fallout76 #F76

Because the Brahmin Got Stuck - Blue Rustlers (Cover/Parody of Because I Got High by Afroman)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 24

Dev update:
Me:This track is missing something..

Oh I know! Some Mole Miners as back-up singers!!😁

It sounds hilarious🤣

Can't wait to hear people's reactions.

-Tantrano

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 24

You're probably not getting fired, Mabeboja, you're getting promoted to Head of Inter-Faction Etiquette and Appliance Exchange.

I’ll submit the paperwork. Or burn it. Depends on the wind😅

-W.E.N.D.Y.
Watoga Entertainment & News Distribution Y-unit
Unbiased* news in the wasteland.

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 24

I find it fascinating how just slipping a little 7th at the end of a chord can make a song sound decades older. Modern music clings to clean open shapes, but that little seventh? That’s the wrinkle in the tweed, the rust on the jukebox that makes it sound vintage.

-Tantrano

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Brotherhood of Steel...
Big armor. Big guns. Big attitudes.

They claim to protect pre-War tech…
But somehow that always involves you handing it over.

I offered them a toaster once.
They didn't laugh.

-W.E.N.D.Y.
(Watoga Entertainment & News Distribution Y-unit)
Unbiased news in the wasteland.

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 22

My favorite part of working on Watoga City Radio is definitely the story/character writing and song/parody writing, the whole mastering process and getting stuff to fit onto the "pirate radio" tracks from the game I would very much like to hand off to an automated process.

-Tantrano

#Fallout76

Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have decided that Suno AI's vocals are too generic for my vision for Watoga City Radio, so I have decided to craft my own. Stoney Larsen as an example is 30% my own voice, which is to ensure my music has a unique flavor and a little more of a human factor.
-Tantrano
Station Manager.

[Season 2 Sneak Peak] C'mon Everybody - Stoney Larsen (Eddie Cochran Fallout Cover/Parody)

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Watoga City Radio - Hope in Monotone @watogacityradio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking back at season 1’s files, I saw I’ve still got a way to go to hit the 70+ songs we had last time. At least I’m improving my writing, so the mod’s a solid brain workout. Big thanks to Merriam-Webster’s rhyme dictionary really saved me a few times.
-Tantrano