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

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Sat May 28 13:03:08 PDT 2011


On 5/28/2011 12:00 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> 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?

David might remember that I ragged him on those early Intersound 
reberbs, but by that time he had stopped using it and was atoning for 
his sins.  Alvenu Malchanu

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>> 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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