[78-L] Overdubs

[David Lennick]

At least with tape they can keep trying till they get it right..same as in 
looping for films. The issued Carusos were the 'least worst'. Celeste Aida is a 
disaster at the end. O Paradiso uses an original with a great deal of surface 
noise, which they keep fading in and out. But the idea was to sell records, not 
to keep the faith. Interesting that while the 1940 Victor catalog lists more 
undubbed than dubbed Carusos, the 1940 HMV doesn't make any distinction and 
lists more than twice as many recordings, mostly with low DA and DB numbers.

dl

On 2/28/2013 4:57 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> One more recent very successful overdub was a program of Bach and Handel arias by Kathleen Ferrier.  The original album was in mono, (as were all of Ferrier's recordings), but they brought back the same conductor, (Boult), and the same orchestra to the same hall and superimposed the now stereo orchestra on Ferrier's voice.
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