One of the factors left out of this is the fact that recording an acetate disc is a whale of a lot different than recording in a wax cake, as the record companies did. I have a Presto K8 recorder, which does (did) a decent job on recording on acetate discs, but I knew enough to not expect this cutter to give me a recording that compares to a factory cut on a wax cake. Like on the Failchild head, one would have needed to push the Presto head to distruction to get wider response. When you recordeed with this equipmant, you had no right to demand or expect factory quality recordings.
Should we be surprised that there was better HF response when the cut was on a wax blank? From what I extract from this, the wax cylinders, cut with an electrical head had better frequency response. Now, try cutting the same material on acetate coated aluminum cylinders, and see what comes out of it. In fact, just for laughs, try cutting the same program on an acetate coated cylinder (I've never heard of such a thing), with lateral modulation, and see what you'll get. Throughout history, apples never compare well to oranges. > [Original Message] > From: Thomas Edison <edisonphonoworks at hotmail.com> > To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org> > Date: 11/3/2008 9:20:40 PM > Subject: [Phono-L] Lateral Vs Vertical. > > Hello everyone. Thinking of the L and V issue, I have a very simple response from cutting records. I had recorded Laquers with the Fairchild lathe , in order to record high frequencies, I had to boost them to a dangerous level almost burning the coil up. When you record you boost highs and limit the lows, and the opposite when you play them back. I used the same head to record hill and dale cylinder records on Edison blanks, and could record the cylinders almost flat, and the lows and highs sounded very similar to the original recording, and the highs did not have to be boosted to the dangerous levels of the lateral disc of which the head was designed to cut, so it certainly seems that it is harder to record highs on lateral recordings than vertical. Some of you on the list have some of these electrically recorded cylinders in your collections with modern music on them, you can state the same I am sure. When it comes to bass however, vertical records are much harder as li > fts occur, but you can increase the ambient wax temperature and record deeper grooves, and record more bass The lowest bass note I had recorded on cylinders was 16 cps, however this was a test tone, with no other frequencies added, it was very difficult to do but can be done. Lateral records record bass with relative ease, however if the volume is to high the grooves run into eachother and must be spaced apart more. (Most modern recording lathes do this automatically.) If you listen to companies that recorded lateral and vertical records you can hear much clearer records, with vertical recordings time and time again. Pathe', Gennette ect. > _________________________________________________________________ > Want to read Hotmail messages in Outlook? The Wordsmiths show you how. > http://windowslive.com/connect/post/wedowindowslive.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns !20EE04FBC541789!167.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_092008 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
