78rpm-record production in the U.S.A. (1937)

with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Vocal By: Ivy Anderson
Tune: Oh Babe, Maybe Some Day

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Music

Tags:

• 78rpm
• record
• production
• U.S.A.
• shellac
• Duke
• Ellington
• Ivy
• Anderson
• Oh
• Babe
• Maybe
• Some
• Day
• 1937

[Disques13Swing]

Ivie Anderson Forever!!!

[mauser1898k]

Thanks for your tip with the oven. I just got a 30 cm shellac, it had oval shave (like a wok pan), and now it is flat like hell.

Thanks from Hungary!

[lrd9999]

@MisterEvasion I remember getting a refund on an early CD player because it sounded so fake; oversampling (in which the samples from the CD are convolved with a sync-pulse to produce the "missing" samples between them) eventually got rid of the worst flaws in digital recording technology. Now, the biggest curse in recording technology is competition to make each track sound louder than the ones played before and after it (See the wikipedia page on "loudness war").

[jampop77]

no "lets record that again" or audio editing in those days!

[CoolDudeClem]

It's strange how little has changed when it comes to making records, sure the technology has improved, but from the point of recording onto the laquer disc onwards it's virtually the same.

[cdadave83814]

Wow...no doubletracking in those days!

[lrh1966]

Great educational video on history of record making...Lloyd.

[MisterEvasion]

They were pretty clever! For the equipment they had, what ingenious methods!

When you think about it, today's digital recordings aren't really the recorded sounds at all, but merely a close representation of actual sounds converted to information. Going a step further, you can say that the electrical impulses of analog recordings are not as 'real' as acoustic. I guess with each advance made in recording, we trade off a part of the actual essence for what we 'experience' as higher quality.

[eoj2495]

Wonderful film!!! Interesting discussion on taking out warps -- I destroyed some LPs trying that a long, long time ago.

[esroberto1]

Actually, 150 is the hottest you want the oven to get. I use a sheet of glass for the heating and another one to cool. You have to be careful with the glass, obviously, but you have to be careful already when doing any of this kind of thing.