[pdb-discuss] Fwd: Re: Free culture column for lud69

Thu Nov 16 02:23:51 UTC 2006

Interestingly enough, I've just got my hands on a few boxes full of old 78s. 
None of them have any copyright years, so I'll have to do a bit of research. 
Which I don't have time to do now. I'm also not sure of the quality.

robert.

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:18, Tom Chance wrote:
> Some tips from my editor (I wrote about PD Burn for issue 69 of linux user
> & developer)...
>
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> Subject: Re: Free culture column for lud69
> Date: Monday 13 November 2006 11:33
> From: Daniel James <danieljames at linuxuser.co.uk>
> To: Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>
>
> ps. I have some experience of 78rpm records, in case you need any tips.
> I use a Garrard 301 turntable with a modern Ortofon 578 stylus and a
> tonearm that will supply a decent tracking weight, up to 3 grams. Some
> audiophile tonearms, like the SME 3009, will only track up to a gram or
> so, because they are designed for 33rpm and delicate moving-coil
> cartridges.
>
> You'll save yourself a lot of digital clean-up work if you can get:
>
> a) access to a library where the 78s have been looked after (end-user
> discs have usually been hammered by blunt needles on wind-up
> gramophones, while the BBC used electric turntables, like the 301 and
> its ancestors, from the earliest days)
>
> b) a deep-groove liquid vacuum cleaning machine (eg a Moth,
> http://www.britishaudio.co.uk/mothrcm.htm ) with a suitable cleaning
> solution, because shellac is organic and the grooves fill up with
> crapola over time
>
> c) a pre-amplifier with the correct frequency curves for 78s (the record
> companies didn't standardise on the RIAA curve until 1954, when 78's
> were dying out). See:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
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