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While transferring the complete official recordings of Oscar Levant for Sony Masterworks, we found two major problems. One was an unorthodox labeling of his lacquers, and the other an eccentric stereo audio format. Columbia’s lacquer recordings had a unique matrix numbering system that would be sequential per daily recording session. By keeping the numbering sequential, even if there were future recording sessions with remakes of the same material, it would be noted in the session logs as to what music was recorded, which take it was and so on. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, matrix numbers were recycled for the same material across different dates in Levant’s sessions. To compound the issue, multiple takes were labeled master! Detective work through the paper archives, and by comparing the original release to the questionable takes brought us to some interesting results. Our second problem dealt with an original release labeled as “stereo”, but upon listening to the master reels, we noticed something was quite off with the sound. One channel sounded very close and “dry”, while the other distant and ambient. At first we thought this was possibly an unencoded MS technique, but that proved not to be the case. The mystery continues.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eOscar Levant, a case study in poor documentation, deviation, and \u0026ldquo;what the hell is that?\u0026rdquo; A common problem in transferring old audio formats is decoding what the engineers, producer, and the artist themselves were thinking during the creative process. While transferring the complete official recordings of Oscar Levant for Sony Masterworks, we found two major problems. One was an unorthodox labeling of his lacquers, and the other an eccentric stereo audio format. Columbia\u0026rsquo;s lacquer recordings had a unique matrix numbering system that would be sequential per daily recording session. By keeping the numbering sequential, even if there were future recording sessions with remakes of the same material, it would be noted in the session logs as to what music was recorded, which take it was and so on. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, matrix numbers were recycled for the same material across different dates in Levant\u0026rsquo;s sessions. To compound the issue, multiple takes were labeled master! Detective work through the paper archives, and by comparing the original release to the questionable takes brought us to some interesting results. Our second problem dealt with an original release labeled as \u0026ldquo;stereo\u0026rdquo;, but upon listening to the master reels, we noticed something was quite off with the sound. One channel sounded very close and \u0026ldquo;dry\u0026rdquo;, while the other distant and ambient. 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