[78-L] surface noise feedback on acoustic recordings

[Michael Biel]

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>  if Patti Page had been recording 30 years earlier, she could easily have done her over-dubbing trick.  After the first take, they could have used the same record to record the second track and she would have heard the first track coming out of the horn while she was singing the second part.
>   

Edison himself actually did this many times on tinfoil as a 
demonstration of the machine.  He would make a recording, leaving spaces 
between the sentences, and play it back making comments about how stupid 
that guy was, and then play back both voices on the one recording.  
Edison invented overdubbing in 1878.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com