[78-L] Tempo Records (and Brother Bones)

[David Lennick]

GENE JOSLIN wrote:
> Tempo's "Direct Electronic Process" was employed in recording the Hammond Organ.
> 
> The output from the Hammond console was fed directly into the recording amplifier and so  to the cutter head.
> 
> The result was an extremely clean recording. both Hammond Speaker and studio microphone having been eliminated from the chain.
> 
> This was being done at the end of the forties.
> 
> Before long  Leslie speakers were dominating the field.
> 
> It was not possible to make a direct recording with the Leslie system since the live sound and fabulous vibrato were created by the speaker and had to be picked up by microphone.    -GJ
> 

Interesting. But since the notation appears on other Tempo records as well, 
shall we assume that the violin of Joe Venuti, the harp of Robert Maxwell and 
the voice of Pietro Gentile were also recorded by this amazing process that 
eliminated microphones?

dl