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

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has "Lincolnshire Posy", doesn't it? I think I have a copy squirreled away. I
also seem to remember an Earl Wild LP on one of those audiophile labels..was
that D2D?

dl

Peter Hirsch wrote:

> I seem to recall a Cleveland Symphonic Winds LP with Louis Lane (I
> think) that included the Royal Fireworks on Telarc that was either D to
> D or one of the early digitally recorded efforts. Wait a minute; never
> mind -- I just went and dug out a CD release of this and it has
> Frederick Fennell conducting and it says "During the recording of the
> digital masters and the subsequent transfer to disc, the signal was not
> passed through any processing device at any step during production." The
> recording date is April 1978 and I am sure that I heard the LP version
> not too long after that and it made enough of an impression on me that,
> almost thirty years later, I recalled it's exceptional presence.
> Probably the first time I heard digital in any form and it was a pretty
> ear-opening contrast to what I was used to. Of course, having the
> Cleveland Orchestra's woodwinds and brass (not too many years
> post-Szell) playing the gig under the great Windmeister may have been
> part of why it was so effective.
>
> Anyone out there have the vinyl and care to share your impression of the
> sound?
>
> Peter Hirsch
>
> Tom Fine wrote:
> > There was Sheffield, Century, M&K Realtime (they did a couple of D2D
> > before they were digital pioneers). I can't name any other specialty
> > labels right off the bat. Didn't some of the majors experiment with
> > this, maybe just for classical and jazz?
> >
> > Hmm, I wonder how one could compile a list and maybe cook up an ARSC
> > Journal article. With 25-30 years of distance, the D2D fad was an
> > interesting last hurrah for LPs. Some of the claims were pretty
> > outrageous -- along the lines of "tape technology hasn't progressed
> > but disc-cutting has vastly improved." Uh, not true. By the late 70's,
> > the Ampex ATR-100 and then-current Studers had eliminated
> > scrape-flutter as an issue and one COULD choose to record at 30IPS
> > half-inch 2-track with no NR and get results that would rival even the
> > best 44.1/16-bit digital systems. But the D2D records, the best of
> > them, show just how hifi grooved disk recording could get.
> >
> > -- Tom Fine
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >> --
> >> mrichter@xxxxxxx
> >> http://www.mrichter.com/
> >
> >
> >