[78-L] Count John McCormack Vol. VII, 1904-1906. "Produced to Pearl Quality Criteria"

[Michael Biel]

At least they weren't playing back their records acoustically and
recording them with a quad mic in some crazy count's overly reverberant
dining room!!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

-------- Original Message --------

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>


I did several complete projects for Pearl beginning in 1994, and at that
time 
they were definitely raising their standards and wanted clicks razored
out and 
a modicum of EQ and didn't object if I centered the records. Their
reputation 
was so bad that when I asked to borrow an item from Jeff Healey, he said
that 
it was in mediocre condition, I said "It's for Pearl" and he said "Oh,
it'll be 
perfect." By '95 the transfers were being provided by me, Ward, Mark and

others, CEDAR was accessible, and a while later Roger Beardsley came on
board.

Anyone remember Pearl LPS!? Like the complete Elgar acousticals, with no
side 
joins, no centering, no speed match-up..

dl

On 1/10/2013 4:18 AM, Christopher Steward wrote:
> I did a few transfers for Pearl and can confirm that they either did their own transfers or used those by people who, like me, didn't want to lend their discs. At the time I hadn't the Packburn or digital software that I have since used, so my results might be described as rough and ready. I assumed that they would at least edit out a couple of loud clicks that I hadn't been able to deal with, but they did nothing at all, so 'Pearl Quality Criteria' meant very little.
> I was told that they often only 'paid' contributors with a lunch, and they weren't very keen when I told them I wanted real money. They clearly operated on a shoestring, and the surprise is that their issues were as good as they often were.
>
> Chris
>
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>
> The Pearl CD "John McCormack in American Song" also has transfers evidently supplied by collectors all over the globe, each with different EQ& sense of what a transfer should sound like.
>
>
> Dennis "Bird Songs At Eventide" Forkel