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Interesting comments about EMI

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on November 1, 2011 at 09:51:32

In Reply to: RE: Big investment for those sets posted by steveassante@comcast.net on November 1, 2011 at 07:27:36:

I'm not sure I've run into the same problems with EMI recordings that you have. Indeed, if you go back far enough, a large number of those EMI recordings from the 50's and 60's still sound wonderful today - my understanding is that EMI held out with their minimal microphoning longer than most other companies did before they succumbed to the multi-microphone addiction. Thus, their engineering subsequently became mediocre, like that on so many other labels. Even at that, I've never found them to be particularly worse than other labels.

You're certainly right though about recordings of in-concert performances - particularly when fewer microphones are involved. I believe one of the Tennstedt Mahler Fifths on EMI was recorded in-concert, but, even here IIRC, the resulting sound quality betrayed the likelihood that EMI was using too many microphones.

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