[78-L] How well did they do it

[joe@salerno.com]

78s were all direct to disc, no tape editing, there's an honesty about 
them. no technical assistance to correct a flaw. what you play is what 
you get.

joe salerno



Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 78s always seem to have more of an immediacy to them, regardless of
> the era in which they were made.  I didn't know why for a long time,
> but for as long as I can remember having any awareness of records and
> the different speeds (back to before I was 3 years old) I always
> preferred the 78s.  If I had a choice, although I expect I'd wish for
> the faster speed disc to have the break-resistant plastic the slower
> ones were pressed on.
> 
> On 4/30/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I have a problem with all acoustic recordings, even tho I
>> can
>> appreciate Oliver's Snake Rag on a purely musical level.
>>
>> Doug Pomeroy
>>
>>
>> I have known a number of collectors who have had this problem.  But
>> listening to anything which does not sound familiar or which sounds
>> "strange" is much like learning a foreign language.  After a while,  you get
>> used to it and your ear/mind can learn to "translate" the sounds,  and
>> eventually to just absorb them as you would any other recorded material.
>>
>> Acoustic records sound "strange" at first...so do a lot of 20s dance band
>> vocalists...but after a while you "learn the language" and then can
>> appreciate the sounds for what they are,  rather than what they aren't.
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
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