[78-L] Facade

[Julian Vein]

On 16/06/13 17:16, David Lennick wrote:
> On 6/16/2013 12:12 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> On 16/06/13 17:08, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>> It must have been one of the first Decca recordings in the UK since the company seems to have been formed in 1929, a strange item for a fledgling outfit.
>>> One has to be impressed with this recording; each side contains a number of poems, each one a bit of a tongue twister, yet there's nary a stumble and, of course, there was no editing.
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>> What's the sound quality like? Early Deccas were notoriously mushy?
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>>         Julian Vein
> Horrible. Boxy. We added a bit of discreet reverb for the Living Era Classics
> issue a few years ago.
> http://www.allmusic.com/album/constant-lambert-the-rio-grande-horoscope-mw0001853662
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> dl
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> It does make one ask whether recording artists concerned themselves with this aspect. I know Decca had just started up, so they probably didn't know what they were letting themselves in for.

      Julian Vein