Re: [ARSCLIST] The first direct cut and taped lps

[Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

An associated question to Capitol's getting Ampex 200 machines is did 
the decks run at 15/30 ips or 7.5/15 ips? I know that Capitol was one of 
the only majors to use 30 ips as their preferred mastering speed, but 
this may have been later, in the mid 50s.
Mal Rockwell

*******

Tom Fine wrote:
> Reeves in NYC was doing recording to tape and cutting micro-groove 
> masters from those tapes in 1949 and maybe even 1948. Some of the 
> first Fairchild tape machines were delivered to Reeves. Fairchild 
> jumped right into the tape machine market after Ampex, but Ampex was 
> definitely first in the US professional market with the model 200. 
> Actually, some of the first 200's were delivered to Capitol in 
> Hollywood, so maybe they were very early too. I would imagine Columbia 
> started recording to tape and cutting LP masters from tape as soon as 
> they got their hands on a tape machine. Radio Recorders out in 
> Hollywood was also early in tape and in LP cutting. So was Bill Putnam 
> in Chicago.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Abrams" 
> <steve.abrams@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 9:55 AM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] The first direct cut and taped lps
>
>
> Everybody knows that the first microgroove LPs were issued by American 
> Columbia circa June, 1948. All of these recordings were dubbed from 
> macrogrooved originals.  So far as I have been able to ascertain, 
> there were no LP recordings dubbed from tape for about another year.  
> I believe that Columbia, HMV and RCA began recording on tape  in the 
> spring of 1949.  Columbia and HMV used tape as back-up, but RCA may 
> have used tape originals.  That is one question I would like 
> answered.  Is there anyone who knows and can cite examples of the 
> earliest issued LPs from tapes.
>
> Another question arises.  I have raised it in various places and never 
> received an answer.  If a year went by before tape came in, someone 
> must have been tempted to do direct cut LPs.  Who and when and what?
>
> I am interested in the first LPs to be issued from tape.  That is an 
> entirely different question from the first tapes to be issued on LP.
>
> Steve Abrams