Jay Rose Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 Today's New York Times has a nice article about early country music recording and its stars. Also this: Quote The [1927 Bristol] tapes would become an inflection point in the history of what we now refer to as country music. ...which would surely amaze the engineers trying to make magnetic recording a practical music medium before we captured the German innovation of high-frequency bias after WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Althaus Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 Hihihi What would they have used? a setup similar to this one from the PBS show "American Epic"? https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-american-epic-recording-machine-nicholas-bergh-20170721-story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Jay Rose said: Today's New York Times has a nice article about early country music recording and its stars Looks like a fun article. Thanks! And I guess the Ken Burns PR machine is spinning up to speed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Rose Posted August 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 5 hours ago, Jim Feeley said: ...I guess the Ken Burns PR machine is spinning up to speed! So now I have to doubt everything I've learned about Baseball and the Civil War? 😉 -------------------------------------------------------------- Update: About six hours after I sent correx to the Times' news desk, the article quietly changed to: Quote The recordings would become an inflection point in the history of what we now refer to as country music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Westgate Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 I have a wonderful book "A Matter of Records" on the life of Fred Gaisberg a master of location recording. But unlike the stunning equipment that we use he recorded acoustically onto waxed zinc discs. Apart from classical recordings there was a great love of novelties recorded in foreign countries. He traveled to America Russia India and Europe by train and boat with very heavy equipment including the metal discs, acid and baths to etch his results in. The whole story is quite amazing and he lived to see electric recording and modern techniques and he died in 1952 in his late seventies! mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izen Ears Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 9:17 AM, Werner Althaus said: Hihihi What would they have used? a setup similar to this one from the PBS show "American Epic"? https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-american-epic-recording-machine-nicholas-bergh-20170721-story.html Amazing. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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