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| Re: think I'll start a retro mastering lab. [message #67970 is a reply to message #67967] |
Tue, 09 May 2006 21:20   |
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dc[3]
Messages: 895
Registered: September 2005
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You get one shot...
Jack has all kinds of out-take discs from nearly everyone in Jazz.
I've heard quite a few and I must say that the original discs, even
from 1938 or so, sound really quite good. Analog, of course, turns
to crap with copy after copy, but that was simply the only way to
make records for the public. And of course, the master would wear
out eventually and the copies made earliest in the run always
sounded best. BUT, if you ever have a chance to hear the original
disc, they are often quite impressive.
Yes, players had to have killer chops back then. BTW, you did NOT
want to be the poor soul who played a clam on a Benny Goodman
date...
DC
"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>Recording directly to disk?????..no wonder musicians used to practice.
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>;o)
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>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:446162ff$1@linux...
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>> Cool movie!
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>> Duke's engineer, Jack Towers was one of my mentors and got me
>> started on old-record resto.
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>> Jack did lots of reissues for the Lib of Congress and for the
>> Smithsonian. They're all good.
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>> Great guy too. He had a million stories.
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>> DC
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>> "DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>> >Heck, why not?. shouldn't be much of a problem.......
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>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjKlFFp4-IE
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>> >;o)
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| Re: think I'll start a retro mastering lab. [message #67985 is a reply to message #67978] |
Wed, 10 May 2006 07:36 |
gene lennon
Messages: 565
Registered: July 2006
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"Cujo" <chris@nospamapplemanstudio.com> wrote:
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>Gene, can you tell us more about those sessions?
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Most of them were with Hank O'Neal, who was just starting Chiaroscuro Records
here in NYC. Hank had the great idea to start a jazz label to record all
the great old legends that were still around but not signed to any label.
I was just starting out and primarily I was acting as an assistant, for which
I never received any credits (or pay), but it was a great time for me, and
after doing several recordings with Hank, I started to gain a reputation
for understanding jazz recording. So I benefited in many ways.
Most of the Chiaroscuro sessions were very minimal. Typically a live mix
into a two track. An example would be a session I did with Hank and Teddy
Wilson that was released as “Live In The White Room” which was recorded in
a former brothel that Teddy had worked at many years earlier. We used my
Revox A77HS because it was brand spanking new, and a few Sony condensers
(ECM22-P probably.) Many of these simple recordings still hold up very well
today.
Unfortunately (for me) in the early 80’s while I was away in LA trying to
build my career as a producer, my entire record collection was ruined by
a flood in my parents house, so I don’t have any copies of my early records.
I should have rebuilt my collection over the years but I always put it off.
:-(
Gene
P.S.
Some of the details like the exact name of the record and the mics used,
are from my 25 year old recollections so…
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