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

[David Lennick]

Good old Numbnuts. They're also the distributor for the Retrospective label, 
which is reissuing (and remastering) a lot of the old Living Era titles.

dl

On 1/10/2013 1:45 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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