Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Was there ever published a discography or listing of all of the 
> direct-to-disk revival LPs? That was a short-lived fad but there were 
> some great-sounding records made. I have just a handful but I imagine 
> there were maybe a couple hundred made.
>
> I would argue that some of those recordings were as good as vinyl could 
> get. It was an interesting time in the recording business because some 
> of the great old-school engineers were still around in top form and 
> there were still jazz and classical artists who could nail it live in 
> the studio in one take, and the studios were past the early and mid 70's 
> "dead coffin" acoustics. Plus that generation of mixing consoles sounded 
> good again in most cases.
>
> Interesting -- in a couple of cases I later bought the CD, which was 
> obviously made from a tape run at the time. You can really tell how 
> Dolby A NR on the tape quashes the sound, even when a good CD mastering 
> job was done.
>
> -- Tom Fine

I've a dozen or so of the Sheffield D2D LPs and a couple of the 
corresponding CDs. Some of the CDs are from digital master tapes, though 
mine were from the analogue masters. The sonic difference is easily 
recognized; my supposition is that it derives from phase shift of overtones.

I've some D2D efforts from other publishers, a few of which are similar 
in quality to the Sheffield but most simply exploit the 'gimmick'

I know of no discography.

Mike
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