Re: [ARSCLIST] The "dumbing down" of Downloaded Recordings

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garr Norick wrote:
> "Oh, one thing -- Columbia 78s after some point were themselves all
> dubs. But, before that? Those great Vivatonals..."
>    
>   Yes, it seems that I read that after about 1940 or '41, and until they adopted High Fidelity Magnetic Tape recording techniques in the late '40s, that Columbia recorded all their material onto 16" acetates at 33 1/3 RPM, and then dubbed the takes that they decided to release to the public onto lacquers at 78 RPM.
>    
>   Sincerely,
>   Garr.
Specifically, beginning in late 1939. The sixteen-inchers were initially 
recorded simultaneously as safeties, and the first recordings of Rodzinski and 
Mitropoulos are direct cut to 78 with the sixteen-inchers being used for later 
dubs and the LP issues, and then from early 1940 on, everything is dubbed from 
the sixteen-inchers. Decca bought World Broadcasting in '42 to get at their 
transcription facilities, Capitol used a variety of studios, and most US labels 
had their masters dubbed from 33RPM lacquers by the time the AFM ban ended.

dl