Date:         Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:37:36 -0400
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Michael H. Gray wrote:
>>>
> The evidence of records made by RCA from 1944 onwards into the early 
> 50s, including those made on tape, make it clear, at least to me, that a 
> limiter was being inserted into the recording chain, most likely after 
> the mixer output and before the recorder.  There isn't any direct 
> evidence for this from RCA's recording sheets, but since these were made 
> up after the session, and we seem to have lost any session-day 
> documents, including any purely engineering documents, we've lost the 
> key paperwork that some light on this very disappointing practice.
> 
> Mike Gray

Maybe somewhere after the first lacquer. DJ pressings seem to sound far less 
limited than commercial issues, in my experience, and a colleague once brought 
me 3 lacquer dubs from Betty Garrett's personal collection of sides she'd 
recorded in 1946 (the Rodgers & Hart album)..no mid-range hump, and I think one 
side was an alternate.

dl