SH Spotlight Recording and Mastering Questions---Answered here. Any more?

If anyone has a copy of the 45 RPM version of "Slow Down", check out the splice in the guitar solo just before the last verse begins.

 

Steve,

Except for splices coming apart, the Scotch 200 series tapes I have play nicely without baking. Ampex 456 series is another story. Has this been your experience?

 

One of my tapes from the 70s is in a 3M box, but wound up on a Scotch reel. How can I tell what brand/model it is. It is a dark grayish color. This is one I ran a week ago to make a digital copy of and it had no problems. Wish I could say that of the Ampex tape I have from a recording I made back in the mid-eighties.

 

The vocal on "Midnight Special" was recorded with two Neumann U-47's. One mic was placed close to Fogerty's face in the normal manner. The second mic was placed approximately 6 ft away at waist height. The vocal was printed onto the multi-track machine featuring the second U-47. To add a bit of edge to the voice, a small amount of the first microphone was blended into the mix.

 

Yes I remember 226. We did not use it.

 

The tape could possibly be BASF

 

Interesting - thanks Russ!

 

Was BASF tape used in the U.S. in the mid-seventies? If so, it could be.

BTW, thanks for your reply, Russ.

 

Have same tape stock Elvis recorded on.

I have a couple of large spools and smaller reels made by Audiotape, same tape stock/vintage from the 1950s Elvis recorded on. Still plays fine on my machine. I also have Scotch from the 1960's, works fine as well, don't have any Ampex or BASF.

 

I've still got a few reels of Audiotape from the 70's with the green and black boxes. We used a bit of it at Studio West which was my first pro studio job in San Diego. Then again, I haven't play those reels recently so I can't attest to their playability. I just looked at the boxes and discovered that what I have is only 1 mil.

 

Steve,

How much have A/D converters improved since the days of the Sony 1610 in the 1980s?

 

Steve,

When shellacs were distributed to other countries on other labels, did record companies have to send over lacquers, or were records "redubbed" in analog or electrical 2nd generation direct-to-disc?

 

I've always felt that most of the improvement has been in D/A converters rather than the A/D converters - any thoughts on that?

 

It's mine too!

 

This is what I'm doing. I'm trying to get just a few Louis sides just to "hear it like it was meant to be". Maybe a Bessie Smith set? If I'm lucky...

I'm 1/2 out of needles already!

 

1. I've always wondered about this. A lot of people complain that early CDs, like The Beatles, for instance, don't sound good because digital technology "was in its infancy".

2. What kind on mods did you make on your 1630?

 

Girlfriend just got me about 20 Victor "bat wing" sides. I just ordered several "types" of needles.

Here's one of them. I play this, and I can hear it through the entire house.

 

So how many lacquers can you cut with one cutting stylus before it must be replaced?