[78-L] shifting phases

[David Lennick]

I've never heard of transferring them out of phase, except of course for Pathes 
and Diamond Discs which ARE out of phase. I had a phase reverse built into my 
old Dynaco pre-amp for playing those, but it doesn't work on non-phono 
inputs..that said, transferring in stereo IS a good idea, but only into digital 
material. Lousy on cassettes and open reel unless you're going to play back on 
the exact same machine. Even then the playback heads may not match what was 
recorded.

dl

William A. Brent wrote:
> recently I was given a vast amount of raw transfers to DAT of some 
> nice 40's-50's vocal material.
> the records are long gone, but the original owner transferred all of 
> them (about 2500) between 1992
> and 2002. His plan was to restore as many of these as he could. at 
> some point, some one must
> have told him that recording these old mono platters with a stereo 
> cart - out of phase - was a good
> idea.
> 
> naturally, those recorded in-phase can be blended to mono (assuming 
> both sides of the groove wall
> are worth using) and some of the noise will be eliminated. If I do 
> that with the out-of phase recordings,
> all that will be left is the noise (and whatever material only exists 
> on one side of the groove or the other).
> 
> of course I can reverse the polarity on one of the tracks, but I was 
> wondering - is there
> some reason to have recorded these "out-of-phase" in preparation for 
> restoration?
> 
> thanks
> 
>