Don Cossacks, Serge Jaroff, On the Attack Columbia Album M542

The Don Cossacks Choir Serge Jaroff, Director On the Attack! Columbia Masterworks Set M-542, 4 78RPM Discs Recorded in 1942
Time Magazine article from November of 1931 Website about the Don Cossacks Chorus
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	1. Don Cossacks On the Attack, Columbia M542-1, 7399-M, XCO-33122 "1D 1" at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	2. Three Cossack Songs: Kuban River, Snowflakes, Platoff's Song, Columbia M542-2, 7399-M, XCO-33130 "1B 30" at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	3. On the Black Horse, Columbia M542-3, 7400-M, XCO-33129 "1B 17 " at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	4. Two Soldier's Songs: Caucasian Mountains, Along the Street, Columbia M542-4, 7400-M, XCO-33132 "1B 5 " at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	5. Sailor's Song, In the Village, Columbia M542-5, 7401-M, XCO-33131 "1A 15" at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	6. Lezginka (Caucasian song), Columbia M542-6, 7401-M, XCO-33127 "1A 10" at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	7. The Recruit's Last Day, Columbia M542-7, 7402-M, XCO-33124 "1A 10" at 12 O'clock in run out groove
	8. Song of the Plains, Columbia M542-8, 7402-M, XCO-33131 "1B 14" at 12 O'clock in run out groove

Inside Cover with notes and lyrics page 1 (use full screen option for better viewing)

Inside Cover with notes and lyrics page 2

CD Cover

Transfer Method/Noise Reduction:

Fons CQ 30 turntable, Sumiko MMT tonearm, Shure M44-7 Cartridge 3.2 truncated connical stylus, Highphonic step-up transformer used in referse, McCormack Micro Phono Drive through tape loop on Anthem Integrated 2 to Alesis Masterlink (a stand alone cd-harddisk recorder). Files recorded at 20/88

Digital Signal Processing on Alesis: 3 band Parametric Equalizer & Normalization

EQ1    Freq=12khz Level= -18 Q= 6 to reduce high frequency noise
EQ2    Freq=8khz Level= -18 Q= 4 to reduce high frequency noise
EQ3    Freq=50hz Level= -18 Q= 4 -- to reduce rumble

AIF Files moved to PC for further noise reduction using Click Repair:
De-click =26; De-crackle = 20; Manual retouch on a few tracks, stereo to mono mix

CD-24 burned on PC, loaded back onto Alesis, Normaziation performed again to compensate for mono mix and CD burned. These files were then ripped via EAC and compressed 224k mp3 files via Lame encoder.