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**HedgeYourBets** · 10-21-2005, 02:41 PM

George Martin's book All You Need is Ears has some interesting explanations of 50s and 60s recording technology and formats. It's not extremely technical, but you get the gist of it.

I read somewhere, probably on the Hindi film music newsgroup, that EMI reused their master tapes in the past. I think they still have them from the 70s or 80s onward. But the tapes and CDs of old Tamil music are derived from 78s, which didn't have master tapes, or LPs. The LPs were sometimes made from 78s or from tape. Often the source records were from private collectors.

Echo must have kept the master tapes to the albums, since the Oriental Records remastered CDs sound quite good.

A while back I saw some late 80s and early 90s IR LPs from Echo on eBay. Some Hindi LPs from this time frame appear sometimes. I vaguely remember seeing LPs of new releases like Gentleman on a trip to India in 1994.

10-21-2005, 02:41 PM	#2
HedgeYourBets Join Date Aug 2008 Posts 4,655 Senior Member	George Martin's book All You Need is Ears has some interesting explanations of 50s and 60s recording technology and formats. It's not extremely technical, but you get the gist of it. I read somewhere, probably on the Hindi film music newsgroup, that EMI reused their master tapes in the past. I think they still have them from the 70s or 80s onward. But the tapes and CDs of old Tamil music are derived from 78s, which didn't have master tapes, or LPs. The LPs were sometimes made from 78s or from tape. Often the source records were from private collectors. Echo must have kept the master tapes to the albums, since the Oriental Records remastered CDs sound quite good. A while back I saw some late 80s and early 90s IR LPs from Echo on eBay. Some Hindi LPs from this time frame appear sometimes. I vaguely remember seeing LPs of new releases like Gentleman on a trip to India in 1994.
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