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Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: Peter Copeland on RCA Victor recordings (1941)
Dumb question again..were a lot of late 40s Victors compressed and EQd beyond
all belief because of something opposite in the players they were manufacturing
at the time? I once heard Freddy Martin's Managua, Nicaragua played on a 1947
Victor machine and it sounded fabulous. Most Victors made from December 1944,
including Toscanini and Henri Rene and Spike and Tommy Dorsey, are impossible
to EQ (and they get even worse in Canada because they sent up production
masters which were re-dubbed in Montreal, complete with wow, clipped first
notes, chopped last notes, and more wow). This seems to end around 1950-51.
dl
Michael Biel wrote:
Tom Fine wrote:
You can hear that Victor was doing compression/limiting for sure by
the 40s. Listen to Spike Jones "Popcorn Sack" for instance, or other
material if you prefer less corny.
Spike Jones might not be a good example to use because a lot of his
masters were dubbed. The ledger sheets note some specific examples
where it was done because a gunshot or something overloaded the
recording, but I have a feeling that a lot of the release masters were
routinely dubs.
Actually I think the question is not whether Victor was doing it, but if
it was done simultaneously on each mic individually. It could be that
they were doing it selectively on a particular mic, or, of course, on
the composite mix. And considering your father's technique of
simplicity and single-mic recording, I would love to have found out what
his opinion would be of having all these electronics compressing a half
dozen mics separately!
Mike Biel mbiel@xxxxxxxxx