[78-L] recording sessions on lacquers began . . . ?

[Jeff Sultanof]

Agreed on the World Ellingtons.

The Republic recording studio was said to be state of the art, and it
showed good judgement on Victor's part to use that studio for classical
recording. Walter Scharf raved about that studio in his autobiography; he
was musical director at Republic at the time.

Jeff Sultanof


>
> > Victor used the Republic studios for a lot of classical recordings in
> > Hollywood. As for the Decca processes described in the Billie Holiday
> notes,
> >
> > I'm looking at the booklet..it implies that they were cutting
> simultaneous
> > 78RPM masters and 33RPM safeties, but I don't know if that's actually
> true.
> > The
> > sound on most post-ban Deccas for the first year or so is very dull,
> whereas
> >
> > Decca made nice full loud original recordings prior to August 1942, and
> > later
> > issues of many of these same recordings (such as Oklahoma!) are superior
> > transfers and can be identified as such by numbers and letters after the
> > matrix
> > and take numbers.
> >
> > dl
> >
> > On 4/21/2012 9:01 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> >> The information about Decca's recording methods comes (I believe) from a
> >> Billie Holiday 2 CD set where some of this was explained (I no longer
> have
> >> the set, so I don't remember exactly).
> >>
> >> It is also my opinion based on what I've heard that the Hollywood Victor
> >> studios was far superior to the New York Victor studios during the
> 1944-49
> >> period. Compare Tommy Dorsey records vs. the Hollywood Artie Shaws. A
> > major
> >> difference. That New York studio was incredibly dry compared to the
> >> beautiful ambiance of the Shaw recordings.
> >>
> >> Jeff Sultanof
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:02 PM, David
> > Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> >>
> >>> My theory for years was that Victor and Columbia equalized their
> records
> >>> in the
> >>> mid 40s so that each one would sound terrible on the competitor's
> player.
> >>> There
> >>> certainly is a unique sound to those things. Oddly enough, I heard
> Freddy
> >>> Martin's "Managua, Nicaragua" played on 1946 Victor machine and it
> > actually
> >>> sounded like music. Studios make a difference as well..listen to
> anything
> >>> recorded at the Lotos Club.
> >>>
> >>> dl
> >>>
> >>>
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>