[78-L] HORRIBLE 78 transfers, on a major label

[Kristjan Saag]

Sometimes broadcast engineers make their own "transfers": they edit the 
CD sound, which may be a transfer itself.
I do it regularly (being both host and sound engineer for my programme). 
Some early (and even contemporary) CD transfers sound dreadful; usually 
the sound is squeezed, and I have to raise treble, which may work, but 
sometimes there's no sound editing done at all and I have to use noise 
reduction, declicking etc.
Hopefully I adjust the sound wisely, being used to manage old 
recordings. But most engineers are not, and may well squeeze the sound 
of a really good transfer.
So we shouldn't automatically blame the CD, if we hear it broadcast, and 
it sounds bad.
Kristjan




On 2011-10-26 18:53, David Lennick wrote:
> I just suffered through 8 minutes of appalling 78 transfers, full of wow and
> squeezed audio, played on a classical request program. And amazingly, according
> to the announcer, it was a Decca/London CD, not something from Pearl or
> Biddulph. Ida Haendel playing a couple of pieces by Szymanowski. Oy!
>
> dl
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