[78-L] Acoustic recording of modenn music questions

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. rbratcherjr at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 2 04:59:03 PDT 2011


This may sound strange but I thought I'd ask anyway. Suppose a 60's or 70's rock song was played from a good wide range loudspeaker into a recording horn that went to a flat disc recorded lateral at 78 rpm then the disc was played back on an all electric turnable. Any idea how it might sound like on playback using a lacquer disc for the recording surface? In other words somehow connect a homemade acoustic recording head to a presto or other recording table to cut the acoustic disc? Honestly I'd like to try that some day just to hear what it would sound like on playback  I know the frequency response would be something like 150 to 200 hertz on the low end to about 6 or maybe 7 kilohertz on the high end but other than that I have no idea how it would sound through the electric turntable & amplifier plus a speaker. Has anybody already tried this idea?


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