shellack mixtape...

i'm going to record a shellack-only mixtape soon - anybody interested to exchange ?

 

ha, sorry - I mean a mixtape made from my shellack-record collection (78 rpm)

prefably post war jazz / bop / bebop / country and early r'nr

 

Agree! Cool things with records; wet play NR and the like...
It seems to me this one is going to be quite funny!

 

cool. will start probably tonight - I might make a master to make some copies - need to buy some decent booze for it (gin or islay single-malt )

 

How do you do copies from master?

 

Red Wine for me is the best way for taping

 

I make first recording not direct to cassette, but onto 2 audio-cd (don't worry, not mp3, I have an elderish Pioneer audio-cd-burner).
Like that I can time it 2x 45minutes and make as many tape-copies from that as I want.

There'll be quite a lot of tracks on the cassette as songs on shellack are max. 3 minutes for 10"es and a bit more then 4 minutes for 12"es.

b.t.w. booze-wise I decided first for some Laphroaig Quarter Cask

 

If you wanne make iT sparkling, just use a Moët & Chandon Dom Perignon White Gold ....

 

Be careful boys; Wikipedia says Alcohol solves Shellac!

 

I am in as long as we use no digitizing: LP direct to cassette.
Oops, I am out, no shellac in my collection and since I downgraded from Lingo to Armageddon, no 78 from me
Art Dudley of Listener (now with Stereophile) said that shellac gives the most natural sound. I will never know I guess...

 

my vinyl-collection consists majorly from 12"es, all eras, all genres but little classical - more than 70% i bought new - first record i ever bought was the european version of great AC/DC - dirty deeds done dirt cheap, bought this one 1979 at tender age of 13 years (...in 1980 saw AC/DC with Bon Scott live in frankfurt/germany a few weeks he passed away, drunk and frozen on the backseat of a Renault R5). Today, inclusive my dj-records (minimal, deep house, fusion etc.) all together +/- 3000 records (? stopped counting long ago). I rarely buy 2nd hand, I prefer new wax, and luckily nearly everything is available on vinyl.
I do have a few big hole 45rpm 7"es selected 60'es/70'ies rock to load my old jukebox, otherwise I'm not a big fan of'em - but I ever since have a big passion for shellacks, that's why I'm using this Thorens 124/II, because it also serves 78rpm and with the proper pickup with eliptical saphire it's a great spinner to play shellacks.
My collection there counts +/- 150 selected shellacks - from the very beginning (late 19th century) to the very end (early 60'ies), majorly jazz and country but also selected dance-music and classics like Caruso - and believe me, there's no more touching, intensive listening to Zarah Leander or Edith Piaf then from original shellack !
I do agree that listening to shellacks is sort of a very pure way of listening to music, but Only where it belongs to...
For my daily listening I prefer 12"es and stereo-sound

 

@autoreverser let me know if you want something specific recorded direct from my totally pumped-up (Keel-ed and Naim-ed) Sondek onto Nak LX-3 (sold my LX-5 restored by Willy Hermann a few months ago: my aging ears could not hear the difference, sorry!)
I want Edith Piaf off shellac!!!

 

no worries, I record onto Naak RX-505

 

RX-505 is on my "to get" list! You lucky b@#$%^&!!!!!!!
I have to pump up my day-job or get my 30+ year old kids off my back...
life was so much BETTER when I was a kid with just a b-box: BeeGees sounded sooo fresh! Donna Summer, Boney M, Eruption, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Uriah Heep, ....... I had to disconnect my doorbell so that neighbors won't intrude into my "listening sessions" once I upgraded to a STEREO....

 

Hi Jorge, I do have 5 shellacks from Edith Piaf, recordings are from 1941 to 1943 - so that will be +/- 25 minutes - what else do you want on the tape,
some other "grand-dames" ? I can offer Zarah Leander, Yma Sumac, Marlene Diedrich ?
Or certain style (swingjazz, bebop, rhumba, country, entertainment) ?

 

T-Ster, I make you a nice compilation