[78-L] In The Mood

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> That R at the end explains a bit of why ITM always sounded a bit inferior 
> to
> a lot of records from the era!   Which leads me to ask, did Victor save 
> the
> source versions of recordings issued from a dubbing?  Or in other words, 
> is
> there possibly a matrix BS.038170-1 but not suffixed R in the vault next 
> to
> BS.038170-1R?
>
I would guess most likely NOT! Matrices were usually dubbed as a last-ditch
attempt to "save" a recording when the original was for some reason no 
longer
usable; that suggests the "beyond use" original was most likely 
discarded...?!

Steven C. Barr