Category: General
Record Cleaning
Many Acoustic Sounds customers have spent big money and countless hours tweaking their analog front-end, but there is one critical area that is often overlooked - the importance of record cleaning. The old-school routine of breaking out the walnut-handled Discwasher may have seemed like a good idea when records were $4.99 and phono cartridges were typically "thrown in" with the purchase of a turntable. But today's high performance analog software and hardware demand a more effective method of cleaning.
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Heard It Through The Grapevine?
You've likely heard the buzz about these CCR reissues. Take a look
behind the scenes at the work of mastering and cutting engineer Kevin
Gray.
Kevin Gray may just be the least known of this industry's heavyweights.
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APO Records To Receive Grandest Honor
APO Records and its founder, Chad Kassem, will receive the greatest recognition for non-musicians in the Blues industry the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive award. Kassem will be presented the award for the Historic Preservation category at a banquet in the Gibson Guitar manufacturing plant in downtown Memphis on Sunday, Feb. 10.
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Honeyboy Edwards has recorded in every format
As stated in the liner notes in the upcoming release: "At 84, David "Honeyboy" Edwards is once again on the cutting edge of recording technology. He has recorded 78s, 45s, 33s and CDs. By participating in this, the first blues recording in DVD format, Edwards has recorded in every format of the 20th Century." This project began as many do, as an inspiration. The goal was to capture and preserve one of the true Blues legends in such a way as to convey both the man and his music.
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