[78-L] the original sound of the twenties --- lp

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat May 28 09:00:36 PDT 2011


Discredited but not gone..the other day I heard WNED playing a good sized chunk 
of the original 1930 Dreigroschenoper cast recording, which Telefunken ruined 
in the 60s by swamping it in echo and continually reissuing in that form.

dl

On 5/28/2011 11:49 AM, Mike Daley wrote:
> Is the use of reverb in reissues completely discredited by this point?
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>> On 5/28/2011 11:41 AM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>>
>>> Please tell us more of the experience. For instance what did you use for
>>> restoration in those days?
>>> I used to use a program called DART, but I think that was a little later.
>>>
>>
>> Digital schmigital! This was the late 80s/early 90s..EQ and razor blades. And
>> (unfortunately, but they wanted it in those days) some reverb from a nice
>> little unit I still own but haven't touched in years, called Accessit. It did a
>> nice job.
>>
>> dl


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