[78-L] Wax!

Matthew Duncan duncdude2000 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 27 16:50:02 PST 2009


Yes I believe that to be true...some UK companies (Decca included) used wax prior to tape recording related processes coming into the respective studios c.1953, around 3years after the birth of the LP in England...
 
Matthew.

--- On Sat, 28/11/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Wax!
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, 28 November, 2009, 0:22


Didn't I read somewhere that UK Decca cut their earliest LP masters on wax?

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Michael Biel wrote:
> > Kristjan Saag wrote:
> >> A newsreel from 1949 about production of shellac records in Germany.
> >>
> http://www.teledb.com/4/wdsMb1pwJEw/0/0/-herstellung-einer-schellackplatte.html
> >> Made from wax masters. I've heard of late use of wax masters in Britain
> and
> >> Sweden as well. Was there any particular reason to continue with wax
> almost
> >> 20 years after the introduction of acetates?
> >> Kristjan
> >
> > Wax was easier to cut than LACQUERS, and the styli used to cut lacquers
> > required burnishing facets (invented by Isabel Capps) and heated styli
> > for best results.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> Some folks just don't like to change to new-fangled inventions. The CBC
> Archives was still cutting lacquers for its "preserve forever" copies as
> late
> as 1967. Microgroove yet.
>
> dl
>
>
>
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