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Testing 1234 Project 3 Total Sound / Popular Science Monthly

 

Testing 1234

Testing 1234
Project 3 Total Sound / Popular Science Monthly
Produced by Enoch Light
Associate in Production: Ronald M. Benrey, Electronics Editor, Popular Science Monthly
Technical consultant to Project 3: William M. Klages
Cover Art: Charles E. Murphy
The Total Sound PR201SD
1967

Peter Roberts, whose voice you hear throughout this recording, is a well known radio and television announcer and newsman. He served for many years as a host on NBC's weekend Monitor program and now shares New York City's most popular morning radio program, Rambling with Gambling on WOR, with John Gambling.

William M. Klages, who produced the technical tests, is technical consultant to Project 3 Records. Currently on the National Broadcasting Company's television engineering staff, he has been prominent in audio-visual fields for 20 years.

Side One
Introduction
Channel Identification
Phasing
Channel Balance
Introduction To Frequency Response
Test Frequencies 
Acoustical Test
Low Frequency Tracking
Rumble And Noise
Standard Pitch "A"

Side Two
Orchestral Sound Line, presenting the normal range of the large "pops" recording orchestra
Percussion Party Line, featuring tympani drums, bongos, bells, organ, Fender bass and guitar
Stereophonic Strings, the warm, exciting tonality of double bass, cellos, violas and violins
Guitar Underground, seven guitars with the Now Sound, playing Georgy Girl
Twenty-One Trombones, revealing the dramatic, demanding emotional impact of twenty-one of the world's greatest trombonists, playing Here's That Rainy day
Tara Theme, full large "pops" orchestral expose

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