Sarah Vaughan - No Count Sarah (LP, Album, Mono) - Very Good (VG) / Very Good Plus (VG+)

Notes

"[r=2231056]" Stereo Version

This Mercury Custom Hi Fidelity recording is the result of the most modern recording technique of our time. The masters for this album were transferred through an Ampex 301 tape machine, a Pultec Filter and Equalizer, Altec limiting amplifiers, Mac Intosh monitor amplifier and a 150 watt power amplifier designed especially to drive the BBC Grampian Feedback Cutting Head.

This monaural disc can be played equally well with either a STEREO cartridge or a STANDART 1 mil microgroove cartridge.

Because of the fine technical equipment used in the recording of these masters, one is assured of the most faithful reproduction in the transfer from original recording to the final masters user for processing.


HI-FInformation:

For this recording session the brass and the rhythm section and piano were on the right channel. Accent mikes utilized included: troumbones - RCA 44-BX; trumpets - RCA 44-BX; bass - RCA 44-BX; drums - RCA 44-BX; guitar - RCA 44-BX; On the left channel were the following, thru the accent mikes listed: Sarah Vaughan - Telefunken U-47; reeds - Telefunken U-47; and piano - Telefunken U-47. For monaural, the same accent mikes utilized with all feeding into a Ampex 300 monaural tape recorder. For Stereo, the two tracks were fed into an Ampex 350-2.

The stereo session is interesting in that this was the first time that Mercury ever used all one type mike on one channel, while all of another type of mike was used on the opposite channel.