[78-L] Light-Ray?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 18 19:04:14 PDT 2012


On 4/18/2012 9:01 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 4/18/2012 8:50 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> True..Brunswick's earliest electricals were worse than their acousticals.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 4/18/2012 9:07 AM, leonard schwartz wrote:
>>> there r 4 bernies with this process that i have ..2 of the four sound really strange.."sleepy time gal" and "im just a little bid bad".they
>>> really sound strange..
>>>
> I would not use the one on Youtube as a standard. It is badly worn. The
> highs are almost completely wiped off.
>
I know the original record. It's pretty horrible sounding. Brunswick was wildly 
inconsistent, especially in their California recordings which are far too bassy 
even for today's equipment, let alone what was in use in the 1920s (amazing 
that those passed the "wear test").

dl




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