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He took an interest in the recording process but was dismayed by the quality of the finished 78rpm releases when he recalled the quality of test pressings he had auditioned. Columbia made the Reiner/PSO recordings using 16-in. lacquer discs at 33-1/3 rpm. Approved takes were then dubbed to new 78rpm masters, during which process equalization was applied. Columbia had opted for cheaper metalwork in producing their records, which often led to discs afflicted with \"roar,\" a condition that grew worse over a decade that burdened the record industry with shellac shortages and two labor disputes that shut down new recording. When working with the PSO Reiner recordings, the reissue producer is confronted with some difficult choices. Some of the PSO Columbias were reissued on the new long-playing records launched in 1948 and rapidly adopted by classical music collectors. Those LPs were new playbacks of the master lacquers rather than copies from 78rpm masters. Whether vinyl or shellac, Columbia records of the late forties are invariably noisy, which then introduces the question of noise-reduction techniques to improve their listenability. All of these issues will be discussed in the course of playing examples of the best and worst, as it were, of the PSO/Reiner recorded legacy.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Keyword"]},"value":{"en":["Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe forty works that Fritz Reiner recorded with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1941-1947 and released by Columbia Records were the first recordings Reiner made under his own name. He took an interest in the recording process but was dismayed by the quality of the finished 78rpm releases when he recalled the quality of test pressings he had auditioned. Columbia made the Reiner/PSO recordings using 16-in. lacquer discs at 33-1/3 rpm. Approved takes were then dubbed to new 78rpm masters, during which process equalization was applied. Columbia had opted for cheaper metalwork in producing their records, which often led to discs afflicted with \"roar,\" a condition that grew worse over a decade that burdened the record industry with shellac shortages and two labor disputes that shut down new recording. When working with the PSO Reiner recordings, the reissue producer is confronted with some difficult choices. Some of the PSO Columbias were reissued on the new long-playing records launched in 1948 and rapidly adopted by classical music collectors. Those LPs were new playbacks of the master lacquers rather than copies from 78rpm masters. Whether vinyl or shellac, Columbia records of the late forties are invariably noisy, which then introduces the question of noise-reduction techniques to improve their listenability. All of these issues will be discussed in the course of playing examples of the best and worst, as it were, of the PSO/Reiner recorded legacy.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/717/small/ARSC_conf_2015_Rooney_Winner_video_thmb.jpg?1675379572","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/121717","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - open-uri20210821-32762-df39l5.mp4"]},"duration":3305.10933,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/717/small/ARSC_conf_2015_Rooney_Winner_video_thmb.jpg?1675379572","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/121717/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/121717/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/121/717/original/open-uri20210821-32762-df39l5.mp4?1629579106","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3305.10933,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/121717","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/255720","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2015_Rooney_Winner_audio.mp3"]},"duration":3288.41666,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/255720/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/255720/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/720/original/ARSC_conf_2015_Rooney_Winner_audio.mp3?1730747036","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":3288.41666,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1505/collection_resources/48691/file/255720","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}