[78-L] Late Pressed 78s.--Historic Masters & Symposium

[Michael Biel]

On 4/27/2011 8:29 PM, Milan P Milovanovic wrote:
> Somewhere I read that in the archives metal matrces were covered with a thin
> layer of wax to protect them from oxidation. Was it common practice?

Not from what I've seen of Victor and Columbia.  They are in just thick 
cardboard sleeves.  Many (if not all) of the Edison Diamond Disc masters 
are stored with a metal grown onto it and not split apart.  That would 
result in both a positive and negative.  There are also many unprocessed 
disc masters in their original wax form.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Fisher"<wmfisher at mtsu.edu>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:25 PM
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>
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>> I assume you're talking about Historic Masters and Symposium REPRESSINGS
>> here.  What you hear is a faithful reproduction of what's on the metal
>> parts
>> WITHOUT the added shellac noise.  Most of the material was mastered to a
>> "wax" blank and therefore the vinyl pressings do reproduce that and any
>> other noise resulting from damage to the metal parts through oxidation and
>> mishaps through the years.
>