[78-L] Lousy on 78s- great as reissue

[Ron]

Could someone please help out a neophyte here?
When you say "whole 78 length takes to 33 1/3 transcription disk" does this
mean that a 16" lacquer was used record just 4 1/2 minutes to be then
transferred to a 78 master, or were individual tracks recorded on the
lacquer, each long enough to fit on one 78" side?

Also, why do the 78's sound dismal but the LP's sound full and modern if
they both came from the same lacquer source?  Equalization?

I find this discussion very interesting, having been brought up on late 78's
and early mono LP's, many of which were transferred to LP from 78's on such
labels as RCA's Camden label and Columbia's Entre label.  I think I have
both the Columbia78 album of Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony recording of
Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody #1 [a favorite when I was 4!] as well as the
Columbia Entre transfer of that same recording.  Would anyone know the
actual source of the original recording?  I'll have to listen to both of
these now in light of this discussion!

Thanks,
Ron Roscoe


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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Worth
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Subject: [78-L] Lousy on 78s- great as reissue


The Rodzinski Walkure Act 3 with Traubel was recorded in whole 78 length
takes to 33 1/3 transcription disk and then dubbed back to 78. I have both
the 78s and the earliest LP release at the beginning of Long Play records
(in coarse groove) and there is no comparison. The LP sounds full and
modern, and the 78s sound dismal. The only problem with the LP is that they
had to do the side joins on the fly DJ style, and some of them get a little
bit off beat until the cross fade ends.

Stephen Worth
sworth at vintageip.com


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