[78-L] Recording Quality - a relative term

[David Lennick]

Interesting, because ARC was never highly regarded for technical quality. They 
sold a two dollar record and reluctantly began doing stereo well after the 
other labels, mostly because their customers weren't screaming for it and they 
were making their money pressing the 101 Strings and other D. L. Miller product 
for Canada. One time the cleaning lady unplugged the speakers and reconnected 
them in reverse (or something) and the rest of a session was recorded out of 
phase and issued that way. They were a huge country and folk label and did well 
with an accordionist named Harry Hibbs, Maritime music in general, and they 
released Anne Murray's first album.

dl

On 7/7/2014 10:03 AM, David Sanderson wrote:
>
> On 7/7/2014 1:16 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
>>
>> .>CYLINDERS<  sound better than today's pop music
>> productions!  Never mind the garbage 'lyrics.'
>>
>> Mike in Plovdiv
>
> 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.
>
> 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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