[78-L] Silence (no 78 hiss) on CD issues

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 11:31 AM 2/5/2010, you wrote:
>I had someone tell me (over on the Talking Machine Forum) that they liked my
>transfer of my Vocalion reissue 78 of Chick Webb's 'Stomping at the Savoy'
>better than the version on a Columbia CD they had, as mine sounded more like
>music, never mind the shellac hiss of a V+ disc, compared with the
>noise-free but under-water-like sound of that over-processed transfer on
>that CD.

I'd choose your transfer too.

>On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:
>
> > The world is full of <deleteds>. I have several in my own family.
> > However...as long as they do not alter the highs and lows and maintain the
> > same dynamic (dB)characteristics of the 78
> > I don't miss the hiss.
> > Sometimes the surface hiss masks the  the vocalist's glottal hiss on
> > transcriptions and ffrr's, for example..
> >
> > Al Simmons
> >