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In Reply to: RE: Funny. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 23, 2007 at 19:15:09
I have been listening through some of the Everest 2-track tapes I have. These were released around 1959 and quickly disappeared with the change to the 4-track tape format. I don't hear any unstable pitch on any of them. The tape box doesn't mention 35mm magnetic film recording, only that the transfer was done with Ampex recorders.
The Everest LP reissues by Classic Records of Corroboree (Goossens) and by DCC of Uirapurú (Stokowski) also don't evince wavering pitch. I believe that neither disc was cut from a 35mm film master, if there was one. Michael Hobson made a big deal about not using the 35mm film master when cutting the Mercury reissue of Ravel's La Valse. He used a 3-track backup on regular tape. In the December 1997 issue of Fi magazine he spoke about this. In the article Harry Pearson writes, "...did not use a 35mm playback machine ("a bastardized medium" is Hobson's phrase for it) in the sessions because it did not have a preview head and thus the disc cutting would not have been automated. Pearson then adds, "The Cozart-supervized CD remastering was made from the 35mm original...."
When Classic Records announced the Everest reissues on LP and DVD-Audio disc, a big deal was made about mastering from the original 35mm master. Only Michael Hobson can give an explanation of what is going on. I would like to see the series continue without the pitch problems.
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