Another Master Recording Remastered
This evening, I digitized another unedited "recording session" from sometime in September 1981, before it was edited into show form for "broadcast" on "The Tape and Record Show". Exact recording date wasn't written on the ancient budget "Cycles" branded audio cassette. I remastered it in monophonic in the sound editing software on the PC, since it was another cassette Randy Haney recorded solo at his house on a portable monophonic cassette recorder and brought to me at high school.
Since Randy didn't do much singing himself over the Elvis Presley material, which was Elvis' last broadcast concert special from 1977, I didn't include the entire recording Randy made on the October 2, 1981 official "broadcast" version, which has already been digitized. The "master" tape going into a cassette player this 2023 evening is probably the first time it's been played since I used it to dub into the "broadcast" edited version in 1981. Having a "master" version and an early dub is probably why most of these very early recordings still exist after four decades. The "broadcast" versions were played for the initial "airing" and subsequent repeats on the pretend weekly TRSE schedule. I'm amazed the "Cycles" branded cassette didn't need a pressure pad replacement after 42 years in "storage".
As I've said before, I COULD make some of these old recordings sound better, since, unlike Randy and his monophonic recorder, Dorchester branded turntable, and worn LP records, since he didn't do much "performing" himself on the tape, I could have recreated it using the CD of the album he used to make the tape, but being the nostalgic m'fer I am, I'd rather keep it authentic. Most I do is run the old original cassettes through a bit of sound filtering on the computer software. Tape and Record Show Enterprises (or not many others I know) had even HEARD of compact discs in 1981. Didn't get my first player until 1984.
I was still awake after that, so pulled out and digitized volume two of Rhino Records compilation of "The Worlds Worst Records" album.
Since Randy didn't do much singing himself over the Elvis Presley material, which was Elvis' last broadcast concert special from 1977, I didn't include the entire recording Randy made on the October 2, 1981 official "broadcast" version, which has already been digitized. The "master" tape going into a cassette player this 2023 evening is probably the first time it's been played since I used it to dub into the "broadcast" edited version in 1981. Having a "master" version and an early dub is probably why most of these very early recordings still exist after four decades. The "broadcast" versions were played for the initial "airing" and subsequent repeats on the pretend weekly TRSE schedule. I'm amazed the "Cycles" branded cassette didn't need a pressure pad replacement after 42 years in "storage".
As I've said before, I COULD make some of these old recordings sound better, since, unlike Randy and his monophonic recorder, Dorchester branded turntable, and worn LP records, since he didn't do much "performing" himself on the tape, I could have recreated it using the CD of the album he used to make the tape, but being the nostalgic m'fer I am, I'd rather keep it authentic. Most I do is run the old original cassettes through a bit of sound filtering on the computer software. Tape and Record Show Enterprises (or not many others I know) had even HEARD of compact discs in 1981. Didn't get my first player until 1984.
I was still awake after that, so pulled out and digitized volume two of Rhino Records compilation of "The Worlds Worst Records" album.