[78-L] Removal of hiss - a different approach

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> Ian G. Masters. Wonder what ever happened to him? 

I think he dissolved in a vat of record goo he scraped off his stylus.

> Some of his advice was great, 
>   

I found his stuff to be quite the opposite.  I often thought he was 
crazy, and this wet playing took me over the edge.

I'll cite another horror story.  It is on a History Channel show, Save 
Our Sounds about the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture.  They 
discussed the discovery of what they felt was a previously unknown 
recording of Woody Guthrie singing the anti-totalitarian verses of This 
Land Is Your Land (about the No Trespassing sign which on the other side 
said nothing and that THIS side was made for you and me).  They said it 
was a test acetate (it was tough getting LC to use correct terms) and 
they used special care when moving it to the new building.  But when 
they put it on the turntable on the show it was OBVIOUS that it is a 
PRESSING.  You can see a square indentation in the label area which is 
typical of certain test pressings of the 40s.  Then they played it wet.  
If it was vinyl, it was not as fragile as they had made it out to be.  
If it was shellac, it would be fragile, of course, and now after wet 
playing it was ruined. 

When I was at LC Culpepper last year for ARSC I tried to have someone 
call up the disc so I could see for myself what the disc really was, but 
they couldn't do it at that time. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com