Re: [ARSCLIST] Pitching and Equalization of 78s

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

----- a typical exchange of views in our e-mail times:

From:                   Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
Subject:                Re: [ARSCLIST] Pitching and Equalization of 78s
To:                     ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx

> At 12:13 PM 8/28/2003 +0200, George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
> >From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
> >
> >This is in reply/comment to Jon Noring, Aaron Luis Stevenson, Goran Finnberg,
> >David Seubert, Mike Richter.
> >
> >
> >1) Pitching of 78s is an activity that requires you to play the same part of
> >a record over and over again, while adjusting the speed, and this causes
> >demonstrable wear, unless you use an ELP Laser Turntable.
>

----- note that Mike stopped reading here, reaching for his gun:

> Yes, it requires repeated playing, but no, it does not require that the
> disc itself be played repeatedly - only twice. In my own work, I do an
> initial transfer, determine pitch correction, then transfer again with the
> correction. The determination requires repeated playing, but that is done
> digitally.
>
>
> Mike

----- now, if he had read on, then the following text would have appeared
before his eyes:

For this reason I have proposed to IASA that we recommend that any pitching
is made on a secondary carrier obtained by a first transfer. Now, in the old
days, a cassette was ideal for this, because you would not use tonal
fidelity, only pitch fidelity as the goal. [there was more, and specific
advice, but no reason to quote further]

----- Mike, all you had to do was to say "I agree!"

Kind regards,


George