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Ted Kendall · 26th Dec 2019, 7:56 pm

Given that the pickups of the day weren't too good, record companies avoided dubbing masters if they could (apart from RCA in the 1940s) - the usual reason was that the original had failed the wear test and had to be reduced in level. Any sort of editing, such as compiling extracts from a live performance by Max Miller, was done by dubbing from multiple turntables, a procedure last used at Decca to make masters for the first LPs from 78 metal. The no-mistakes-please nature of this work made it extremely tedious - John Culshaw, the Decca producer, claimed that ever afterwards he had an urge to shout "Drop!" at the side-change points if he happened to hear in a concert one of the works he supervised on these sessions.

26th Dec 2019, 7:56 pm	#5
Ted Kendall Dekatron Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kington, Herefordshire, UK. Posts: 3,676	Re: Is this 78 rpm record a re-issue? Given that the pickups of the day weren't too good, record companies avoided dubbing masters if they could (apart from RCA in the 1940s) - the usual reason was that the original had failed the wear test and had to be reduced in level. Any sort of editing, such as compiling extracts from a live performance by Max Miller, was done by dubbing from multiple turntables, a procedure last used at Decca to make masters for the first LPs from 78 metal. The no-mistakes-please nature of this work made it extremely tedious - John Culshaw, the Decca producer, claimed that ever afterwards he had an urge to shout "Drop!" at the side-change points if he happened to hear in a concert one of the works he supervised on these sessions.