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When I record using edison, on its own seperate channel in the mixer, I can faintly hear the audio of the song in the background. This is agrivating! Try a different channel on the mixer. Put the edison recorder on insert 2 and try that. I am batteling this myself and i have had fl studio for years. What fl studio do you have? Im using 9xxl and I didnt notice the problem with 8xxl. Maybe ist a software bug. Could be edison too. Goodluck!

Nice to meet you, Mr. ...1989. I think we're around 90 years separated in what we're discussing tho...

Hi all, I've just finished research into which Diamond Disc sides were dubbed to BOTH the Blue Amberol format and the Long Play format.

(List that had been posted here has been re-posted elsewhere).

That Edison company was ready and willing to let the crap out of the bag, huh? Sheesh.

Nice response. This was the comment that broke the camel's back and totally gutted my enthusiasm for this forum.

pughphonos wrote:Hey, Wolfe, Kaplan's Melodists were pretty good!

Lots of things are pretty good.

It just seems that Edison should have unrolled the big stuff for these new records.

Well, Wolfe, the list I provided above isn't a fair sample of all the Edison Long Plays. We all know that by the 1920s Edison was usually (not always, but usually) dubbing more conservative stuff to the Blue Amberols as by then the remaining cylinder market was largely rural. All the list above does is show the areas of intersection between LP, DD and BA. I have also worked up a complete list of the LPs (to be posted later), which includes recording sessions made just for them--and dubs from DD that did not make it to BA. Among those you find some B.A. Rolfe selections.

Also, though, as was discussed earlier in this thread, Edison's people wanted more sedate "background" material on these LPs--without big volume issues that might cause distortion problems with the narrow LP grooves. So, no, you weren't going to get hot jazz on these LPs. The last of them (30006, released in 1928) showed the direction they might have taken: classical music by violinist Carl Flesch, dubbed from electrical Diamond Discs.

pughphonos wrote:Well, Wolfe, the list I provided above isn't a fair sample of all the Edison Long Plays. We all know that by the 1920s Edison was usually (not always, but usually) dubbing more conservative stuff to the Blue Amberols as by then the remaining cylinder market was largely rural. All the list above does is show the areas of intersection between LP, DD and BA. I have also worked up a complete list of the LPs (to be posted later), which includes recording sessions made just for them--and dubs from DD that did not make it to BA. Among those you find some B.A. Rolfe selections.

I'll look forward to your continued research!

I was being a bit facetious when I made my earlier comment. That music isn't really so terrible, if one is in the mood.

Well, at least you replied. No other interest here it seems.

pughphonos wrote:Well, at least you replied. No other interest here it seems.

Kind of like the buying public back in the day!

Just kidding! I'm enjoying the posts and research in any case!

Bob