[78-L] Goodman / Carnegie at 80

[David Lennick]

Very confusing article..almost sounds as if there were 6 cutters involved, if 
CBS was also recording it (implied). And lacquers with 8 minute capacity would 
be 33rpm 12 inch, unless the writer meant 2-sided 78s. This is a mess.

dl


On 1/20/2018 8:46 AM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 1/19/2018 10:23 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>> I've had the Lp for decades.  Don't know why, but I had always assumed these
>> were originally cut on 16" at 33 1/3, as an air-check-like format.  I don't
>> recall detecting any 78 noise on the Lp set, but they were a tad dull, and
>> listening to the 1999 Sony CD this week, these sure sound like 78s.  Doug's
>> note below mentions 24 discs, but I was not sure if those were 78 rpm dubs
>> made for the convenience of consumer players.  Now I'm really curious.
>>
>> What were the originals?
>> Where was the lathe, or lathes - in a back room at Carnegie or was this done
>> over a wire to some studio?
>>
>> I'm guessing all this has been covered here before, and we've batted around
>> Carnegie Hall a lot in the last 25 years on 78-L, but I don't remember it if
>> these topics were covered.
> The recordings were done by wire. http://www.jitterbuzz.com/carcon.html
> Four lathes were used, not all at the same exact speed, lending to the
> difficulties of early edits. Sound quality was compromised several times
> along the path and there was no onsite engineering to speak of. It was
> all quite primitive, even by period standards. We are fortunate to have
> the quality we have.
>