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

[David Lennick]

Hey, I've heard some London CD reissues of old monaural material with a neat 
depth effect, achieved simply by playing the old tapes in stereo and probably 
not cleaning the playback heads. I remember ATCO actually boasted about doing 
this on their Coasters and other R&B reissues. And of course there are those 
odd Columbia Special Products issues from the very earliest ML 4000 tapes, 
where the tapes were not only played in stereo, they were twisted and spliced 
all to ratshit and tone got onto at least one of the lps.

dl

On 11/9/2011 3:28 PM, bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> 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