[78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc

[Martha]

 A recording engineer for Gennett stated that he/they determined that too 
much bass on the records was unpleasant on the older acoustic phonos (which 
almost everybody had - compared to acoustics, very few electric phonos or 
even "Ortho" types  were sold until the end of the Depression) .. so they 
purposely filtered out the lower end.  Columbia's acoustic dime-store labels 
were popular for the same reason, while their Viva-Tonal issues never sold 
nearly so well.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Haug" <westbankal at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc


> An article in 78 Quarterly stated that Gennett regularly "dumbed down" 
> their
> sound quality so the records would sound ok on the wind-up phonographs 
> that
> their hillbilly and blues customers were likely to have, much to the 
> chagrin
> of their engineers.