[78-L] Acoustical 78s in Spectra-Sonic Sound

[David Lennick]

On 11/8/2011 11:46 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 11/8/2011 11:15 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>> In the early 80s the Everest Group's Olympic label
>>> issue their George M. Cohan and Al Jolson LPs -- both from acoustical
>>> Victors in the early teens -- in QUAD!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> And of course, there are those Prime Voce CDs on Nimbus which were
>>> recorded from an acoustical EMG Expert gramophone in the Crazy Count's
>>> Castle dining room in Ambisonic surround sound quad with a multi-element
>>> matrix microphone.   Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>> One of MCA's double lp sets, Jimmy Dorsey I think, contained at least one track
>> transferred from an original shellac 78 played in stereo. (The same rocket
>> scientists issued an Ella Fitzgerald-Chick Webb lp with a skip in the original 78.) dl
>
> Surface noise in stereo is nothing.  RCA Victor has occasionally done it
> on CD.  I'm talking about taking electronic stereo filtered and echoed
> recordings and putting them thru a quad encoder.  And also talking about
> playing recordings -- including electrical recordings -- acoustically in
> an overly reverberant room and recording the result with a quad
> microphone.
>
> This stuff is WEIRD.  It makes the mild reverb you used on Intersound
> twenty plus years ago almost invisible.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
Actually I had a pretty good reverb unit, something called (I think) Accessit. 
I borrowed it "temporarily" (forever) from an AV studio that went out of 
business not long after. The thing has been boxed up for years.

Intersound once reissued a lot of my stuff with a stereo effect that 
disappeared in mono. Sounded terrible. I bet it was the same unit I once tried 
on approval from Radio Shack.

dl