All this is fine for casual listening or if you're making your own "mix" files but not for serious work, IMHO.
Ben you are absolutely correct in using a stereo cartridge for capturing the signal from both groove walls which can later be fine tuned and mixed together in software to achieve optimal results. A mono capture will seriously restrict your options later down the road.
Personally, I can't stand the idea of a delay in one channel to achieve a spatial or pseudo-stereo effect. This type of abomination has lately been turning up on many Bear Family reissues and I all but refuse to listen to them because of it. That's my opinion but to each his own.
Martin Fisher
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The slightly warped sound of Columbia 78s using a stereo cartridge
Is the point at which I mention pinch effect?
On 13/02/2018 18:42, Mickey Clark wrote:
> The issue is the vertical component of the signal produced from the
> laminated record. To get a pure mono signal with a stereo cartridge
> you can't have the vertical modulation. You can clearly see the
> inconsistent surface when looking the blank part of these records. The
> VRII will automatically cancel any of the vertical component-Mickey
> Clark
>
> -----Original Message----- From: 6295LARGE .
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> Subject: [ARSCLIST] The slightly warped sound of Columbia 78s using a
> stereo cartridge
>
> Hello all.
>
> A while back I was having a problem playing Columbia 78's. now I know
> it's because I was using a stereo cartridge. I was getting a light
> warpy sound.
> I didn't realize that the stereo cartridge was the problem, and
> that's what I don't understand. Why does that happen when it doesn't
> happen with most other labels? Can anyone please explain?
>
> The main reason I use a stereo cartridge on mono 78's is because, very
> often, one wall of the groove is more worn than the other, and I can
> eliminate that noise by just deleting that channel. Then I split the
> cleaner channel. Sometimes that technique works miracles.
>
> Another trick I learned is to insert a 1000th of a second of silence
> delay at the beginning of one of the channels which give it a more
> spacious sound
> - a kind of stereo-ish mono.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Roth
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