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Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for vintage open reel tape machine
Well, you know people, it all depends on the specific era the artist
is (re) creating! It would be most excellent to use the correct
hardware for the year of writing of each song... Just imagine the
array of recording devices in a classic American song collection...
Caruso to Sinatra... mind boggles.
<L>
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
Adrian Cosentini wrote:
Hey if you really want to go vintage I have an Chicago-Webster
Wire recorder that still works, with the original microphone. Oh
the fidelity.
Adriano
Of course you could do the recordings on acoustical cylinders, and
actually there have been some notable cylinder recording sessions
in the last 10 or 15 years including the Fisk Univ Jubilee Singers
at ARSC in Nashville. And we had a good demo of recording on
tinfoil at the 2008 ARSC. Or it could be recorded on lacquer discs
like I had my ARSC talk on the introduction of instantaneous cut on
discs by Graham Newton. That also was the session when I played
the Ultimate Columbia Double-Disc Record. I successfully played it
in a CD player, and then put it on an acoustical wind-up Victor
Victrola VV-X where it played one of the Columbia Double Disc
demonstration records. "A point to remember. Columbia Double Disc
Records will play on either Columbia or Victor machines, and they
will unfailingly outwear any other record."
Mike Biel mbiel@xxxxxxxxx
From: "Ben Torre" <btorre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 05:55 PM 3/10/2009, you wrote:
In my opinion, a Nagra IV represents THE golden age in analog
recording.
No arguments there.
Through the 1980s, NPR engineers often used them (and even more
frequently their mic preamps) when making studio recordings.
Didn't you guys also use the Philips MD-series boards back then?