Of course this requires working with the recordings rather than just
listening to them.  A point about staggared tape -- the head offset is
exactly the same as the distance between the record and play heads on
the Otari 5050 (at least the 4-head headblocks) so you only need to put
the following channel in Sel-Rep with the lead channel in Repro.  Worked
fine with some Robert Oaks Jordan master tapes.



Mike Biel   [log in to unmask]  


  -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "soundbook" Book-Records Inc, NY
 From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
 Date: Wed, December 08, 2010 6:16 am
 To: [log in to unmask]
 
 There's no reason to cobble in the age of DAWs. Just transfer both
bands with a good quality 1-mil 
 mono cartridge and then line them up, checking "sync" as often as
needed. Bob Auld did this very 
 convincingly for an AES NYC section presentation a few years ago. The
Cook sound on what Bob did 
 (one section from an SFX record and a Brahms recording, forgot the
orchestra) was what I'd call 
 "binaural" rather than stereo -- works best with headphones as opposed
to speakers. Most speaker 
 setups leave a hole in the middle. Bob achieved good "sync" with the
Brahms because there was no 
 flangeing/phase-swoosh at any time with the room tone/reverb nor did
the strings move around. I've 
 been able to do something similar with several "staggered-head" 2-track
tapes. Given the tapes' age, 
 I verified "sync" every couple of minutes, looking for transients
supposed to occur about in the 
 center of the stereo image. Then I listened all the way through for any
flangeing or swishing and, 
 as long as the tape was in half-way decent shape (there was one reel so
badly warped that it was 
 hopeless), the transfers were a stereophonic success.
 
 -- Tom Fine
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Michael Biel" <[log in to unmask]>
 To: <[log in to unmask]>
 Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:34 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "soundbook" Book-Records Inc, NY
 
 
 From: Punto <[log in to unmask]>
 > A few years back I posted to this list about some interesting Cook
LPs
 > that were apparently stereo recording that used a separate groove for
 > each channel and required two tonearms for playback. Does anyone out
 > there have a working turntable fitted out to play these curiosities?
 > Peter Hirsch
 
 I've got about 30 or more of these Binaural records but still haven't
 found a Cook arm or adapter. One of these days I should cobble one
 together. I've got enough extra parts lying around. One of the dual
 band records is a Wilbur deParis jazz album on Atlantic, and last year
I
 also got a copy of the album in a regular stereo issue Atlantic did
 about five years later. Cook also reissued some of the albums in
 regular single-groove stereo, and put out one demo CD with a variety of
 his early stereo tracks.
 
 Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
 
 
 On 12/7/2010 10:06 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
 > In addition to being a record label, Emory Cook was also a recording
 > engineer and recording service. There are a lot of Cook recordings
that
 > were not on the Cook Records label.
 >
 >
 > Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
 >
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