Re: [ARSCLIST] Modern Cylinder Phonograph

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, as of right now, the links on the RealAudio samples page
http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/pv_ra.html
aren't working here. I hope to be able to hear some of these samples at some point.

Nimbus's approach is what my father did, taken a further step. I'm not sure he would have preferred 
a process like this for flat-disk "78's", but like I said he got good results for cylinders. I'm 
pretty sure all of the 78 transfers he did for commercial products were electronic era anyway, so 
one could argue those were recorded electronically and should be transferred electronically. Plus, 
usually he had metal parts to work with. In the early days of LP, there was a decent business in 
reissuing collections of 78 "singles" onto LPs. For instance, Mercury/Emarcy collected some of their 
old jazz material as well as their acquired Keynote material and other acquired masters into a 
series of LP's with names like "Boning Up on the 'Bones" and "Battle of the Saxes."

I believe those Nimbus reissues are well liked by at least some opera fans. They obviously sell 
enough to justify this elaborate and I would guess expensive method.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goran Finnberg" <mastering@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Modern Cylinder Phonograph


> Steven Smolian:
>
> > The idea of recording off a horn seems completely perverse to me.
>
> http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/pv_transfer.html
>
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Goran Finnberg
> The Mastering Room AB
> Goteborg
> Sweden
>
> E-mail: mastering@xxxxxxxxx
>
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