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In the late 1980s, once a week I would drive my daughter to the home of the first-chair cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for her lesson with his wife, who was also a sub in the orchestra. One evening I was making an audition tape of the wife on the piano accompanying my daughter on the cello; the tape was for college enterance purposes.
I had my first hi-fi VHS on the living room floor recording the goings-on in the music room, when the first chair came in to observe and chat. Explaining my setup to him included a statement, which I believed to be correct then and now: this VHS machine records audio with better characteristics than any recording Columbia ever made with Ormandy (Eugene Ormandy, the long-time conductor of the Philadelphians). Lower noise, wider frequency response, lower wow and flutter, and greater dynamic range.
By that time, RCA had taken the orchestra's recording contract from CBS (it was back in 1968 IIRC) and so I would expect the pro recorders RCA had were the latest and probably better than the old CBS units. Anybody familiar with pro recorder specs of that day who can confirm or debunk?
Pete
Last edited by Pete Deksnis; 11-13-2009 at 07:43 PM.
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