[78-L] Angel records in Canada

[Royal Pemberton]

>From what I understand, until about 1961, Capitol sessions that were
recorded in both mono and stereo were miked differently, actually with two
sets of microphones.  One set fed a mono control room, the other set fed a
stereo control room, each manned by its own engineers.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>wrote:

> I never thought about it before, but now that you mention it.......
>
> Capitol was a different label after EMI took over. The early Duophonics are
> quite listenable, the later ones absolutely horrible. And yes, decision
> making became a game there with hardly anyone who knew what they were doing
> watching the ship. Quite a few early stereo sessions were just thrown out;
> there is abundant proof that they had stereo tape machines going during
> sessions that were only released in mono. The stereo miking for the last
> Harry James album on the label is one of the worst I've heard.
>
> My favorite instance of the mess that was Capitol was when Pickwick made a
> deal with them to release budget albums. Capitol opened their vaults to Cy
> Leslie and told him that his only restriction was that he couldn't use
> recordings that Capitol still had in print. Well, Capitol had deleted a lot
> of their back catalog at the time, and Cy discovered that they'd put some
> Sinatra recordings out of print. Well, what do you think Pickwick put out
> first? Sinatra hit the ceiling, and Capitol had to do some fast maneuvering
> to straighten the situation out. According to Leslie, he went easy on them
> (and I believe him; he is truly an honest record executive). Leslie was
> responsible for issuing tracks that had never been issued; when I brought
> this up to him, he simply told me that he'd gotten lists from Capitol and
> picked what he liked.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > At 04:09 29/08/2010, DL wrote:
> > >Reminding us that it wasn't only The Beatles that Capitol's engineers
> > dumbed
> > >down.
> >
> > Maybe its just me, but it seems that Capitol/ EMI has the worst
> > history when it comes to screwing up stuff. Perhaps I'm making my
> > assumption based on stuff they put out after the 1960s, but I note
> > that of the majors only Capitol has a section in their wikipedia
> > article nailing them on this (see Record altering in
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records ).
> >
> > Granted a lot of people did fake stereo, but it seems that Capitol
> > did it more often along with rubbish like duophonic, re-arranginging
> > tracks on lps, as well as in general crap mastering. Of all the EMI
> > companies, only Toshiba-EMI seemed to really give a hoot about quality.
> >
> > T
> >
> >
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