More importantly, how about 35mm music albums made at Spectra-Sound Studios????

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From: "Aaron Levinson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] 35mm music-album masters made at Spectra-Sound in L.A.???


> Tom-
> 
> I have a copy of The Nut Cracker with Dorati and The London Symphony, it 
> is a Mercury Living Presence 35mm Mag recording. They mention wider, 
> thicker and faster in the notes but what were the specifics?
> 
> Did it run faster than 30 ips?
> 
> AA
> 
> 
> Tom Fine wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Another listmember kindly pointed me to a Billboard article from June 
>> 3, 1967 - "Spectra-Sound Films' Records" - indicates L.A.-based 
>> Spectra-Sound studio was offering 10- and 12-track 35mm capability 
>> (not clear if it was on single custom-format machines or via machine 
>> rooms of 3- and 6-track standard-format machines) for music-album 
>> production.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any albums recorded at this studio with the 
>> "tracking" medium being 35mm? I couldn't find any among my Project 3 
>> albums from that time period. As far as I know, by 1967, only Project 
>> 3 was regularly using 35mm mag-film for record-album production. 
>> Command Classics made 35mm recordings in Pittsburgh in the spring of 
>> 1967 and the spring of 1968, but Command's regular flow of pop albums 
>> at this time were exclusively or almost exclusively done on tape.
>>
>> Anyway, any info on Spectra-Sound's use of 35mm to record music-albums 
>> would be appreciated. As far as I knew until this article, the only 
>> west coast studios to make 35mm albums were United and Radio 
>> Recorders, both for Mercury's short-lived f35d series.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
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