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To: Glenn Perry who wrote (3016)	2/13/2001 4:03:12 PM
From: don_lapre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4169

Definition of "warm" is a Linn turntable. Still nothing to this day that comes close. The new DVD audio discs are supposed to come close - nothing like analog though....

To: Glenn Perry who wrote (3016)	2/13/2001 7:50:19 PM
From: Alan Cassaro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4169

I certainly agree with you concerning those Buddy Holly Master recordings, the quality is excellent, but then, Norman Petty was one hell of a meticulous engineer. As far as I know, those were quarter inch mono master tapes, not the two inch tapes that allowed 3 seperate tracks of recording. (When the Ampex 3 track machines first came out, Chet Atkins said, "What the hell are we going to do with the third track, it's overkill." ) One of the reasons the Holly tracks sound so good is because Buddy and Norman PLANNED their overdub sessions very carefully. They went from mono machine to mono machine (quarter inch). However, Buddy did the background parts first, such as the harmonies on WORDS OF LOVE or LISTEN TO ME. Then for the next generation he'd add the lead guitar line. By the third generation, he'd add his MAIN lead vocal, so Buddy's lead vocals were always a FIRST generation recording. Hell, maybe those were only two generations, but I find it hard to picture Buddy playing those guitar arpeggios (ala his idol, Mickey Baker, of "Micky and Sylvia"). More likely he didn't do three generations too often. Of course, Norman had to mix each together as the new layers were done. Buddy and his brother Larry actually installed the tiles for the echo chamber at Petty's studio, a great sounding chamber. Even the crickets inside the chamber sang on cue. (The bugs living there, not the group). I don't know how Norman Petty was able to keep the noise and hiss level down so low, they are incredibly clean recordings. Compare it to the overdubs of the SUN material that Johnny Cash or Jerry Lee Lewis did. Having heard the raw Sun Masters without the dreaded Gene Lowery Singers, there is an incredible amount of fidelity that was lost by the time the chorus was added on the second generation. Ah but, that's the rub. Cash's vocals were second generation by this time. But Sam Phillips was just a drunk genius who liked to rock. Norman Petty was straight from cornball city, having had some success as a writer with Roger Williams, and other MOR acts.I always loved Vi Petty's roller rink organ solos on Buddy's stuff, or the celeste on EVERYDAY. Vi was Norman's wife.. It's Fun to digress about Buddy..Did you ever hear "OLD FRIEND" that Waylon Jennings wrote? Waylon played bass with Buddy on that last tour.. It's a great song tribute, and only Waylon could say it this way. "Buddy we sure miss you, but you ain't missed a thing". Rave On, Al