Home Recordings - Shave or Not to Shave

[Victrolacollector]

In 2005, I made a recording.....I introduced myself, did the Mary Had a Little Lamb recitation, and then closed with the date.

In 2012 that record actually fell and broke.

We all know that we should preserve a recording from the early years of recording (late nineteenth and early twentieth century). In fact, Allen Koenigsberg found some cylinders containing the voice of the notorious murderer Herman Mudgett in Chicago.

https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/mudgett/

How about a cylinder recorded in 2000? Should we shave and re-use, where do we draw the line?

[Wolfe]

I don't see a cylinder recorded in 2000 or 2015 to have any special value 100 years from now. The world is now stuffed with whatever claptrap humans have recorded, a hundred different ways. A recording (however slight it may be) from 1895 is a far rarer bird.

[n2wheelies]

i fouled up a few recordings which become retakes... on a another cylinder. Ive shaved those that really got botched, and saved a few that were funny because the subject said, wait, one more time...

what kind of stuff do you like to record Wolfe?

clicky!! for a few outakes of our adventures

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... n+recorder

[Wolfe]

Oh, pardon. I don't record cylinders. And I didn't mean to imply that it's not a worthwhile pursuit, either. But the world is so full of media now, recording everything.

[edisonphonoworks]

From my experience, recent technology tends to not be so stable! I had a DCC recorder, I intended to preserve cylinders on, all it took was to play a Maxell regular cassette with head demagnatiser built in to ruin the unit. My A dat tapes work ok, but the red star appears. CD Rs get mysterious oxide spots on them and do not play. As long as a cylinder is kept out of humidity, it is a much more stable time capsule than modern media. The mechanical machines work, even if you are in the middle of nowhere! Preserve those cylinders!!!!