[78-L] Mills Brothers song

[Ron L'Herault]

Have you tried Canadian Astatic for the needles?

Ron L

-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Steven C. Barr
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Brothers song

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>> Does someone have an MP3 of "The Jones Boy", by the Mills Brothers? I
>>> hear it when I was a kid and haven't since.
>> I have the 78...mainly because this was one of the "tunes of my 
>> childhood"
>> (my childhood happened to be the NADIR of North American "pop"
>> music!!)...but so far no way to convert my half-vast shellac archive to
>> digital phenomenae...?!
> Thanks to Bud Black for sending me a nice clean mp3.
> Steve, get on Ebay and get yourself and CD recorder. The prices are
> ramping up. I have  TEAC that works nice, though it was not the highest
> rated. I think the Marantz and Sony versions were good too. I record
> entire sides of 33's flat, then edit using Audacity on the computer.
> I think the CD recorders are going to become scarce as time goes on.
> They don't make em any more and the number of them on Ebay is beginning
> to wane.
> I have heard that the USB record players are of inferior quality. Anyone
> want to comment?
>
Well, I recently discovered that I DO own a "record player" which uses the
N8-3d needle...in fact, will take TWO of the dommed things should I so
wish! Next step is to find the requisite needles. Then, I shall cut the
cartridge output lead and redirect it to a "mini-phone-plug" which I can
then plug into the "Line In" jack of my sound card...a ceramic cartridge
puts out a nice 1 volt "line-level" signal, and I USED to record my 78's
to cassette by taking the cartridge output and feeding it into the "Line
In" jack of my old Sony r-2-r deck, which was also the centre of my
"sound system!"

The 3-mil needle seems to work fine on about 99.9% of vintage 78's...
it CAN'T handle a very few Grey Gull discs, though (I would guess
they have VERY oversize grooves...?!). I dubbed MANY a 78 to
cassette for DL for reissue purposes using this same set-up...however,
I lost the Sony machine (and my old record player to boot) back in
1997, when a few SO-CALLED(?!) "friends" decided to hold a
"contents sale" while I was lying in hospital...if God is just, they
will PAY for this...?!

Now I have to recreate the setup...just need a reliable source for
N8-3D needles...!!

...stevenc 

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