Capital Records Digital Masters Article

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This is a 2016 article that I just found about Capital Records archiving their analog tapes.  Not too technical, but interesting with snippets from Bernie Grundman and Don Was.  

 

http://www.laweekly.com/music/master-recordings-from-abbey-road-to-born-to-run-could-be-lost-forever-without-archivists-help-7575450

 

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1 hour ago, Solstice380 said:

This is a 2016 article that I just found about Capital Records archiving their analog tapes.  Not too technical, but interesting with snippets from Bernie Grundman and Don Was.  

 

http://www.laweekly.com/music/master-recordings-from-abbey-road-to-born-to-run-could-be-lost-forever-without-archivists-help-7575450

 

Interesting article.

I noted the line where it talks about the cost of thousands of dollars per album to make tape to digital transfer of a master tape, and that the cost can be daunting for  legacy material and for less well off owners of catalog material. 

I also noted the reference to "master" tapes of the Beatles at Capitol, which I'm sure isn't true. They might have copies, but AFAIK those original tapes don't leave Abbey Road/EMI. I'm pretty sure that's true of some other masters at EMI, also.