[BC] They can't give 'em away!

[Glen Kippel]

If we are talking early 45s, I doubt very much that many of them were
recorded in multitrack.  It may have been on 3-track Ampex 300's, but most
were recorded straight-ahead to full-track mono or, later, two-track
stereo.  I recall in 1963 seeing a custom 5-track Presto machine built by
Paul Buff at PAL Recording in Cucamonga.  Probably the one one ever made.




> Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:


The term "Master Tape" has many meanings. WHICH
"Master Tape"? Probably not the studio multitrack master
from which you can entirely remix the song. The submaster
from which the multitracks were mixed down to (the best).
The LP master? Single master? Both may have been EQ'd
and processed for vinyl and those you DO NOT want.
I got an education on this from Bill Inglot, Rhino's
mastering engineer.