[78-L] It's in the book, etc.

[David Lennick]

In the early 70s, I bought new pressings of a couple of Lenny Bruce albums on 
Fantasy. All remastered from tapes that had more echo and pre-echo than 
content. Unbelievable. Fortunately my dad had original red vinyl copies from 
the early 60s.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Or worse....sometimes a safety tape would likely sound better than a wiped
> out original.  Check out 'A taste of honey' or 'Tijuana taxi' on the 2001
> Herb Alpert compilation DEFINITIVE HITS.  Doug Sax and Robert Hadley did the
> mastering at The Mastering Lab, but the tapes were utter garbage.  You can
> clearly hear where the oxide has crumbled off the backing (probably Scotch
> 201 tape) and channel balance, image stability and tonal balance vary
> considerably.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>>  I like to work from early issues because the master tape
>> was fresh at the time. Too many later issues from new dubs are full of the
>> cutting engineer's current EQ ideas and print through.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>