John R.T. Davies

[Guest Bixieland]

Now John R.T. Davies . . . didn't he establish a basis, a platform of study - maybe even a greater industry - from which others came?

[Late]

Probably. Yes.

[jostber]

Here are some links on the great sound engineer and musician:

http://www.bluesworld.com/JRTDavies.html

http://www.jazzoracle.com/team/davies_bray.asp

http://www.vjm.biz/articles9.htm

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/14/105131.php

http://www.jazznotesuk.com/newsitems6.htm

[AllenLowe]

nice man, great transferring engineering - but the scraping technique he used to eliminate clicks and pops, though effective, and far superior to things like the Packburn, has real flaws - most particularly a deadening of the sound resulting from transferring to tape at 7.5 ips - don't know if those links advise it, but in later years he was using digital techniques like CEDAR -

this, by the way, was initially pointed out to me by an erstwhile member of this board. I won't mention his name, unless he gives permission (no it wasn't CHEWEY),

Edited February 15, 2009 by AllenLowe

[jazzbo]

Ted Kendall was an engineer associated with Davies who is continuing to produce similar stellar remastering results.