[78-L] Dumb Gennetts

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Damn! The writer left us hanging. He was headed to Hong Kong for 
Brunswick when the paper ended. There's gotta be more. MORE, I say! 
Great stuff!
Malcolm

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martha wrote:
> Robert Callen, a recording engineer for Gennett and later Brunswick, stated 
> that he/they determined that too
> much bass on the records didn't work on the older acoustic phonos (which 
> most phonos still were - compared to acoustics, very few electric phonos or 
> even "Ortho" types  were sold until after the Depression) .. so they 
> purposely filtered out the lower end.
>
> Complete paper here:  http://www.box.net/shared/2qtgy02lmy
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Duncan" <recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dumb Gennetts
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>
> I think that record buyers in Britian had acoustical players until the 40s 
> on mass due to cost of more advanced equipment rather than a preference 
> coupled with the fact that so many homes didn't have electricity until the 
> WWII period at all or perhaps in only one part of any building.
>
> I wouldn't know about the equivalent matters in the US surrounding this 
> though.
>
> I definitely agree with you surrounding the 'wear test' and 78s recorded 
> 'too well'.
>
> Matthew Duncan
> UK
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Sat, 9 January, 2010 18:00:26
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dumb Gennetts
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> I don't see how you could "dumb down" the sound without dubbing it or how
> Varsity reissues could be better if dubbed from the issued versions, unless
> someone was a genius at EQing. It is true however that records recorded "too
> well" would fail the wear test. I also understand that because so many
> collectors in Britain preferred acoustical players, many recordings were
> equalized to play well on those machines.
>
> Then there are those Edith Piaf Polydors, which seem equalized to sound as 
> if
> they're being PLAYED on an acoustic machine.
>
> dl
>
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Al.
>> So Gennett "dumbed down" the stampers? If the Varsity pressings are
>> better that would mean that the mother was untouched and new stampers
>> were pulled from the "clean" mother. Still can't see how low-end
>> response would be cut doing that.
>> Malcolm
>>
>> *******
>>
>> Al Haug wrote:
>>     
>>> Kennedy in 78Q number 8, page 47. Opinion on Varsity is my own.
>>>
>>> 2010/1/8 Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Who wrote it and what issue is it in?
>>>> Malcolm>>>>
>>>>         
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