From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello,
Bob Ohlsson wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From joe salerno: "...Shortly after that film was made the lacquer
> recording
> process must have become popular, making the film quickly outdated..."
>
> I can remember reading somewhere years ago that the use of lacquer masters
> for replication didn't happen immediately because of quality issues. Does
> anybody know anything about this?
----- I think it has to with the fact that the hot stylus technique did not
get used until 1948. The noise level when cutting wax was 4 dB lower than
when cutting lacquer cold. The above figures are from memory only. However, I
do know that the principle was invented early 1920s by Miessner.
At EMI, lacquer was used for colonial recording from the late 1930s; I
suppose this logistic choice was sensible and outweighed the increased noise
that would be masked by the shellac mixture. And the end users were probably
not esteemed as being quality-conscious.
Kind regards,
George
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