[78-L] Remastering

[Julian Vein]

One of my favourite sayings, (which I made up myself), is "Invention is 
the mother of necessity."  If you have a console sitting in front of you 
with 64 input channels, you feel rather silly only using two of them, 
even if that's all you need.  Equipment which you absolutely can't do 
without now was never missed a few years ago before it was invented.  As 
even a cursory comparison will tell you, the recordings made in the 50s 
and 60s by Mercury and RCA Victor, with only a handfull of mikes are 
arguably amongst the finest recordings ever made.  I know this sounds 
like the rantings of an old man but I have done such comparisons with 
young engineers and music lovers, blindly so that they don't know which 
one is which, and invariably the older recordings have won out.

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One of my favourite sayings is: "If it ain't broke, break it!"

Doesn't the problem of multi-channel recordings go back to Xmas Eve, 
1954, when Rudy van Gelder used such equipment to record the famous 
Miles Davis "Bags Groove" session? Not only that, but he was gain-riding 
like there was no tomorrow, with the result that the music keeps fading 
in and out.

      Julian Vein



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