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

[Royal Pemberton]

Those Nimnul....Nitwit....Nimbus CDs....they even played 1940s electric 78s
on that acoustic thing!!

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > ==============================================================
> >
> > 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
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