Opera Singles from the 00's, teens & twenties

Part 1

August 24, 2009

 
 

You can play all the songs via 8tracks or go to each song (320 kbps MP3) and play or download it.

1. Evan Williams, Oh Paradise! from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Act 4, 1909

Victor 74148 12" Single Sided Disc

Condition: E

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

Biography of Evan Williams

2.  Amelita Galli-Curci, La Patida by F.M. Alvarez, 1917

Victor 74500 12" Single Sided Disc

Condition: E-

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

3. Enrico Caruso, "Thy Lips Like Crimson Berries" Siciliana from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (1911)

Victor 87072, 10" Victor Single Sided Disc

Condition: E-

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

4. Luisa Tetrazzini, Swiss Echo Song (L'Eco) by Carl Eckert (1911)

Victor 88311, 12" Single Sided Disc

Condition: E+, Slight warp

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

5.  Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti, "Solenne in quest' ora" from Verdi's Forza del Destino, 1906

Victor 89001, 12" Single Sided Disc

Condition: E-/V+

this one was a bit noisey with the 4.0TE stylus, better w/ 4.0 CT stylus, but I don't have one yet.

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

6.  Enrico Caruso and Marcel Journet, Crucifix by Faure, 1912

Victor 89054, 12" Single Sided Disc

Condition: E-

Listing at the UCSB Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

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Transfer Method/Noise Reduction:

Fons CQ 30 tt, Sumiko MMT Tonearm, Shure M44-7 Cartridge, Expert Stylus 4.0 Truncated Elliptical Stylus, McCormack Micro Phono Drive, Rek-o-kut re-equalizer set to 300Hz Turnover/-5db Treble cut, 24bit/96khz AIF files captured on Alesis Masterlink HD/CD Recorder, FMS Audio ESP Interconnects.

Speed: 76.59 RPM following Rek-o-kut guide and my own limited sense of pitch.

Initial EQ via Alesis onboard 3 band parametric equalizer to reduce hiss and rumble:

-18 DB at 40.9 HZ
 -6 DB at 14.22 kHz
-18 at 20.22 kHz

I also used the Alesis on board Look ahead Peak Limiter to bring out the mid range while reducing moments of clipping and groove damage.  Alesis Peak Limiter Settings:  Threshold = -1.0 db; Output Level = -2 db; Release = 10 msec. Maybe next time I will try a more aggressive setting for greater impact.

AIF files brought to PC for further editing with Click Repair 3.0.1, Denoise 1.0.7  & Goldwave Audio 5.52.

Click Repair Settings:  30 de-click wavelet; 20 de-crackle wavelet -- applied in 2 separate passes.

Denoise applied for further hiss reduction  -- custom samples taken for noise profile from each file; corrections range from -8 to -12 db. 

Goldwave Audio Software:  trim, fade in/out and a Static Band pass filter applied to reduce effects of clipping and/or groove damage.  Default Voice hum & his profile used as a starting place and then modified to 60Hz, 6800Hz with a curve rating of 8.  Band Pass Filtering applied in spots or to whole file which ever worked better.

 

 

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