Re: [ARSCLIST] Early digital in Europe

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

By 1979,all three labels were under the (then) Polygram umbrella,and had all but standardized their recording/pressing quality companywide.I used to think that the crummy sound of the London/Philips Lps of the period,was due mostly to the nature of the early digital recording.Then I heard a couple of Japanese FFSS label pressings of these Lps,and while they ain't Kinsgway Hall Bluebacks,there ia a world of difference here.


                                   Roger

Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Goran:

I apologize for any "gotcha" tone I might have had in my followup. I very much appreciate your 
reaching out to those guys, and I agree that first-hand history is usually extremely helpful, as has 
been proven to me during this research.

The Decca presentation made at the February 1980 AES convention in London indicates that 
experimental recordings were made throughout 1978 and "in December 1978 and January 1979 
non-experiemental recordings of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra were made and edited." So there is 
some discrepancy, but it may simply be that Boskovsky's concert started New Year's EVE 1978 and then 
went into New Year's DAY 1979. However, there also might have been an earlier recording of other 
material sometime between December 1 and December 31, 1978.

Now, expanding this out, what did DG and Philips do? I am pretty sure Philips did some digital 
recordings in 1979. I know they were making digital recordings in 1980 because I have a couple LPs. 
DG was definitely making digital recordings by 1980, too.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goran Finnberg" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early digital in Europe


> Mike Richter:
>
>> There seem to me to be three possible explanations for the acrimony:
>> 1. Dispute for the sake of disagreement
>> 2. A minor error propagated by both participants
>> 3. A calendar with unique disrespect for dates
>>
>> One poster cites an earliest date of 1 January 1979. The other cites
>> three subsequent dates - perhaps misreading them as earlier. Then we
>> return to the originator for a challenge which suggests that his
>> calendar also runs backward.
>
> My bad.
>
> As I am in the middle of some intense editing of a soon to be released
> CD disk my brain isn´t at its best.
>
> But I distinctly recall having at least two CD´s in my collection that
> is earlier than the "New Year´s Day Concert"
>
>> Is no one reading these posts before writing? Is a Fingerfehler or a
>> moment of confusion a capital offense here - or may it be punished with
>> only forty lashes?
>
> I have emailed former DECCA producer Morten Winding to hear what he John
> Dunkerly and Simon Eadon at ABBA´s records remembers from those days
> when they were DECCA recording engineers to put me straight.
>
> BTW, the official viewpoint of Universal records is one thing and my
> recollections are another.
>
> Having visited the DECCA recording centre many times during the 80´s I
> have talked many times with DECCA recording engineer John Dunkerly and I
> have been recording engineer with DECCA producer Morten Winding
> producing many times.
>
> The ability to talk directly to the horses mouth makes for an
> exceedingly refreshing experience instead of hearing the claims after
> the propaganda machine have distorted the facts as they happened.
>
> So I can be wrong indeed, wouldn´t be the first time, but let´s hear
> what my sources from DECCA days back then remembers.
>
> -- 
> Best,
>
> Goran Finnberg
> The Mastering Room AB
> Goteborg
> Sweden
>
> E-mail: mastering@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never live long enough to
> make them all yourself.    -   John Luther
> 


       
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