[78-L] Lighten my darkness

[David Lennick]

Yeah..they're ******* atrocious! Brunswick's acousticals were far better than 
their early electricals. Or most of their middle electricals, especially the 
Los Angeles ones. Or their early ARC era electricals.

I would love to know whether Brunswick ever recorded any original masters at 
33RPM and dubbed to 78. They definitely did some 78 dubs in the 20s, and there 
are some orchestral recordings that have that heavy "transcription" tone. There 
are 33RPM Theater Use discs in the early 30s, but that's a different situation.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Do the Brunswick records made with the 'light-ray' apparatus have a
> definite sound to them that marks them out from the acoustic records,
> and the good quality electrics?   One Brunswick I have is a Ray Miller
> disc on 3046 of 'Dreaming of a castle in the air' b/w 'Sweet
> nothings'.  'Dreaming' was recorded 18th January 1926 and sounds very
> good for the era, while the flip, recorded the next day, is a
> distorted mess.  I wonder if one side was 'light-ray' and the other
> done with the good equipment?