[78-L] surface noise feedback on acoustic recordings

[Vincent Fitzpatrick]

I have read an account somewhere of an acoustic recording session at
Victor--probably the one written by Caruso's daughter--which described how
the wax disc would be played back immediately, to check the balance. It
stated unequivocally that such a playback made the wax unusable as a master.
I wouldn't believe the contrary no matter who said it.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Michael Shoshani
<mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 11:55 -0800, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>
> > Secondly, 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.
>
>
> My uneducated guess is that the cutting stylus would have obliterated
> the first take while plowing through the soft wax groove doing the
> second take.  Even playing a wax master with a reproducing head was a
> damage risk; "playing" it with a recording head (which was designed to
> channel sound energy into the stylus, rather than receive it from the
> stylus) would probably have been destructive.
>
> MS
>
>
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