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

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

When I was having the delirious thoughts about acoustic 78s in StereoAction, I had the mental image of a player set on a trolley-on-tracks (similar to a camera trolley setup), the tracks laid in the pattern of Billy-in-Family-Circus fashion, with boom mics throughout the room (and of course the recording console set upon a waterbed so that quick L-R-L-R pans could be wonderfully unpredictable).

...or some kind of computerized simulation.

hm.

COULD it be done, if only as a VERY limited edition joke? Or, better done with Jesse Crawford discs or (wait for it)... Frances Craig on Bullet?

I think it's time for my meds, I hear "Charmaine" playing in the distance...

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:15:21 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustical 78s in Spectra-Sonic Sound

From: bradc944 at comcast.net
> Here's a thought for an April First gift: Music of a Golden Era - 78s in StereoAction
> Haven't ruin across the set you mentioned, but will keep my eyes open for it.
> Maybe Design was using the records to smuggle something in? (reference to the
> slang verbage of 'camel poop')    juuuuuuust KIDDING!   Brad

NOT just kidding!  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.  I used to carry around the sampler CD to ARSC
meetings and other collector meetings and called it the Nimbus Laughing
Record, because it was usually greeted with gales of laughter.  It set
the art of reissues and restoration back over thirty years.

So, Brad, your idea is not as off-base as you thought!  Dumb, but not
really any different from what the record industry has already done!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  



----- Original Message -----
From: David Lennick 

Here's an odd one..a Design LP of great operatic voices, GREAT VOICES OF
A 
GOLDEN ERA VOLUME 1. McCormack, Ponselle, Caruso, Garden, Chaliapin,
Schipa, 
Destinn, Tauber, Melba and Slezak. Surface noise intact, no filtering,
no echo 
(amazing!)..and probably no attempt at proper playback speed (Ponselle
sounds 
like Clara Butt here). Of course it's pressed on the usual frozen camel
poop 
Design always used, but still..! Anyone ever run across this, or a
Volume II?

dl

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