[78-L] Recording Quality - a relative term

[DAVID BURNHAM]

I remastered two of my favourite big band albums from the LPs - Glen Gray's "Swinging the Classics", (or whatever it's called, that doesn't sound right), which contained swing arrangements of such diverse classics as "Poet and Peasant overture", the second movement of Franck's Symphony and the last movement of Mozart's 40th Symphony, and the "Swingin' Nutcracker" by Shorty Rogers.  I've never seen the Glen Gray one reissued and the only reissue of the Rogers was on a very expensive CD from Spain that was very poor sound - like AM radio and in Mono!!!  I remastered these through CEDAR from LPs which were quite old and well played and the results were spectacular, (compliments to CEDAR).  Anyone who hears them can't believe they're dubbed from LPs.

db


On Monday, July 7, 2014 9:42:36 PM, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
 

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>You've swerved into the very situation that prompted my initial query on the
>subject.  I work with a young man (34-35) who is an avid amateur musician,
>has perfect pitch, plays almost anything, and listens to nearly everything.
>We work for a software development company and spend a few hours every day
>doing some repetitive/menial tasks that support the rest of our day, and
>some days to stave off the boredom we break out the headphones and share
>music with each other.  I made a CD for him of some stuff from the late
>1950s/early 1960s, including the Boston Pops and some of those Glen Gray big
>band remakes.  He raved about the quality of the recording and wanted to
>know where I got them.  He thought they were new.
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>On 7/7/2014 1:16 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
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>> .>CYLINDERS< sound better than today's pop music productions!  Never 
>> mind the garbage 'lyrics.'
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>> Mike in Plovdiv
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>I don't think it's been mentioned specifically, but one of my big objections
>to current consumer fodder is that it's all engineering, not music, piled up
>like the famous McGee closet and cascaded onto the listener with no
>particular regard for the result. Singers don't enunciate, lyrics are
>incomprehensible, accompaniments drown everything.
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>Had an interesting experience recently. I got a 1960's LP on the Canadian
>ARC label, by Hal Lone Pine and Jeannie Ward, this apparently from the
>period following his divorce from Betty Cody, when he was operating out of
>Regina, SK. ARC was in Toronto, and I don't know anything about their
>operation, but when I played the record it was a surprise - clean, full
>sound, nice separation amongst the instruments, good reproduction of solo
>and duet singing. Maybe someone knows more about ARC and will tell us; but
>this is certainly the best example I've heard lately of what people have
>been saying about the state of the recording art during this discussion.
>ARC's liner notes make much of their technology and care; and they're right,
>I think you'd be hard put to find a CD this good.
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>David Sanderson
>East Waterford Maine
>dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
>http://www.dwsanderson.me
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