'Decca Sound'?
 

Whatever it was, it's gone now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...r-Raeburn.html

'He was, with Erik Smith and John Culshaw, the progenitor of the "Decca
sound",
the unique timbre that emerged from that once-great powerhouse of
classical music recording.'


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Eiron.

'Decca Sound'?
 

Do you mean FFRR? Full frequency rang recording? I guess Mantovani etc were
the sort of stuff you think of in this respect.
Deccasound was actually a brand name of radiograms! I should know I worked
for Decca.

Brian

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"Eiron" wrote in message
...
Whatever it was, it's gone now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...r-Raeburn.html

'He was, with Erik Smith and John Culshaw, the progenitor of the "Decca
sound",
the unique timbre that emerged from that once-great powerhouse of
classical music recording.'


--
Eiron.

'Decca Sound'?
 

Brian Gaff wrote:
Do you mean FFRR? Full frequency rang recording? I guess Mantovani etc were
the sort of stuff you think of in this respect.
Deccasound was actually a brand name of radiograms! I should know I worked
for Decca.

Don't know what it means. I was hoping someone here could tell me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...r-Raeburn.html

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Eiron.

'Decca Sound'?
 

"Eiron" wrote in message
...
Whatever it was, it's gone now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...r-Raeburn.html

'He was, with Erik Smith and John Culshaw, the progenitor of the "Decca
sound",
the unique timbre that emerged from that once-great powerhouse of
classical music recording.'


Was this an obituary? That's very sad.

I knew Christopher Raeburn quite well. He was a very
fine classical producer, a world expert on Mozart and
a real old-fashioned getleman.

Iain

'Decca Sound'?
 

"Eiron" wrote in message
...
Brian Gaff wrote:


Do you mean FFRR? Full frequency rang recording? I guess Mantovani etc
were the sort of stuff you think of in this respect.


The Decca full price classical albums (series SXL) were the
first FFRR products - Full Frequency Range Recordings made
possible by the new Decca cutting head developed by Decca's
technical director Arthur Haddy.

Deccasound was actually a brand name of radiograms! I should know I
worked for Decca.

Let's differentiate between "Deccasound" and "The Decca Sound" :-))

Don't know what it means. I was hoping someone here could tell me.



"The Decca sound", in this instance is probably a reference to the
"Decca tree" microphone set up. In fact none of the producers mentioned
took part in the system development AFAIK, except on an evaluation
basis. The idea was the brainchild of Decca engineer Roy Wallace, who
did experiments with Kenneth Wilkinson and the classical recording team
at that time. The new stereo recordings that had been recorded with crossed
or co-incidental pairs, were scrapped, and new versions made with "the tree"
as this was agreed by all the be a superior topology.


Iain

'Decca Sound'?
 

Sticky keyboards are a pain...
Brian

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Do you mean FFRR? Full frequency rang recording? I guess Mantovani etc
were the sort of stuff you think of in this respect.
Deccasound was actually a brand name of radiograms! I should know I worked
for Decca.

Brian

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"Eiron" wrote in message
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Whatever it was, it's gone now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...r-Raeburn.html

'He was, with Erik Smith and John Culshaw, the progenitor of the "Decca
sound",
the unique timbre that emerged from that once-great powerhouse of
classical music recording.'


--
Eiron.