Kids love it 
Been transferring some old LPs to CD, just for the fun of it, and b/c so many of them are not available, and my son wanted to hear the one pictured above, which was OK by me. 
1955 Capitol LP, full of multi tracking tricks, sped up guitars, Mary singing with herself, and the recording sounds fabulous. I havenāt listened to a record in so long, I keep forgetting how good they sound, and this one, well, I wish I could make records this good.
Might be that nice microphone in the pictureā¦oh, yeah, and all that talentā¦
Anyway, hereās to āThe New Sound.ā 
And a happy new year to all of you as well!
Old Lpās do have a certain flavor Tom! It could be the great guitar used!
Happy New Year!
Any chance of a short sound-byte Tom? (Iām sure that would come under the āfair useā copyright).
Try this link to amazon - they have some short clips - try āIām sitting on Top of the Worldā for some guitar funniness, āIām a Fool to Careā to hear vocal quality, āTennesse Waltzā for Mary Fordās overdubbed voxā¦
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Maā¦s=music
More here - try āI Really Donāt Want to Knowā - love that sound :
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Caā¦s=music
edit: I have to add, the clips donāt do justice to the sound of the record. It really is in part the vinyl.
And it make sense that vinyl would sound good, since it is derived from the Latin word for wine.
Whatās CD derived from? Latin for ābrittle crystaline soundā?
Thanks Tom, great clips.
love the vocal sound on āFoolā.
Talking of LPs (vinyl), LP (Les), and LPs (guitars), I had a little go on a friendās sonās Les Paul last nightā¦having been a Fender devotee for many years I now want a Les Paul. Oh well. His dad has just bought an Epiphone Dot. A mighty fine plank too.
This guy invented Multi-track recording on Vinyl tapeā¦ There were NO-Better recordings ever made then on the recordings he did on his home-made hardwareā¦ Before that audio hardware there was Full-track mono and Half-track stereo recording techniquesā¦ but never multi-track recordingā¦ I believe that it was his recorders that were the fore-runners to the Ampex 400 series of 8-track audio hardwareā¦
If I looked for and could find my books on Recording practices that is somewhere in my library Iād find the magazine that printed the article on Les Paul and multi-track recordingā¦
I think it was Mary Fordās voice-and-quality that sold the ideaā¦ Wellā¦ But he was no slouch on his guitar, eitherā¦ I think he used one of those Guild Copy-Catsā¦ on his recordingsā¦ I know Chet used one of themā¦
Billā¦
XonXoff, a small suggestion, if you are serious about a Les Paul - look at the Heritage guitars. Less expensive and better quality (really, night and day) - made by the guys in Michigan who got left behind when they moved the shop to Nashville. More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Guitars
Thatās amazing Tom, Iād heard the name Heritage, but never knew anything about them.
Iāve always been a Fender man, but the best guitar Iāve ever played was an early 60ās Les Paul, one of those weird ones that looked like an SG.
If Heritage are still making axes of that quality, then Iād better start saving my nickels and dimes.
Thanks for the heads-up on that one.
Yep, ditto Tom. Thanks for the heads-up on Heritage guitars.
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Tom, that wikipedia article is not an encyclopedia article, itās a commercial. It reads like something straight out of a sales brochure.
Iām not saying Heritage guitars are good or bad, or that the āarticleā is accurate or inaccurate, but I sure as heck would not rely on it as my sole source of information.
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| Tom, that wikipedia article is not an encyclopedia article, it's a commercial. It reads like something straight out of a sales brochure. I'm not saying Heritage guitars are good or bad, or that the 'article' is accurate or inaccurate, but I sure as heck would not rely on it as my sole source of information. |
Apparently someone agrees with you, scuz - as of 1/2 the page has been disputed for advertising. And you are correct, it does read like an ad. Still, in my opinion the Heritage guitars are well worth looking at. FYI, I don't have any connection with the company, not even a remote one, except that I live in Michigan. On the other side of the state, however.
How do they resolve this sort of problem?
I have played a few Heritage guitars. They are at least on a par with Gibson. Maybe even better IMO. Certainly better value for the money. Gibsons new stuff is over-priced IMOā¦
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| How do they resolve this sort of problem? |
Heritage, or whoever wrote the article, has 5 days to edit it. If itās not altered to meet Wikiās approval, an Admin will remove it.
To meet that approval:
It must not be a vanity article.
It must verify the āfactsā claimed therein.
It must be presented from a neutral and balanced POV.
Florid statements like: āIn short, EVERY guitar made by Heritage is a āCustom Shopā guitarā are a big no -no.
It must cite references.
e.g.:
Who is the independent body who verifies that everyone is a master craftsman and that nothing leaves the plant without their approval?
Where is the verified comparison of the materials used by them, Gibson and PRS?
A price list would be nice comparing prices to all other guitar manufacturers.
In short, it needs to look like an encyclopedia article, and not an ad.
Thanks for the reality check Scuz. Iād still like to try one though. But if that really is an ad from them then thatās a big strike against them. I donāt much care for hornswagglers.
yuccchh! that was a heads-up, not an effing advert!
thanks much for bringing it up.
good on ya
chiller.aus
Tomās post was a heads up, and Iāve already thanked him for that.
But if you think the wikipedia article is not an ad, then perhaps you ought spend less time effing and more time reading and thinking about what youāve read.
On re-reading it, there is no doubt in my mind that it was an ad.
Anyway, Iāve spent the last few days listening to lots of records. Man, they sound good. E.g., Toots and the Maytals, āReggae Got Soulā is incredible on vinyl, just doesnāt have the same depth on CD - at least the tracks on the greatest hits CD. Also, why is it that some of the LPs that I remember being musically great turned out to be stinky when hearing them again 20 years later, but others really have stood the test of time?