Puritan Matrix

[BenL]

Does anyone know the matrix range when Puritan changes to electrical recording? 

 

Thanks,
Benjamin

 

Edited June 4 by BenL

[phonogfp]

I hate to be one of those guys who answer only to say "I don't know," but I don't know!

 

George P.

[CurtA]

Shortly after the change from acoustic...

[BenL]

1 hour ago, CurtA said:

Shortly after the change from acoustic...

I'm thinking 1926 around 11400, but I'm not certain and just want to be sure. By this point Puritan had almost become a dime store label and most dime store labels didn't change over till 1927, such as Perfect. 

[Jerry]

2 hours ago, BenL said:

I'm thinking 1926 around 11400, but I'm not certain and just want to be sure. By this point Puritan had almost become a dime store label and most dime store labels didn't change over till 1927, such as Perfect. 

 

In my feeble understanding of things, I've also heard that some of the "lesser" labels used some not-so-great electrical recording technologies that were only just a tiny bit better than acoustic. My guess is that this would make it all the more difficult to determine that point of change, at least by ear anyway.

[Percy_Dovetonsils]

Even when some labels "changed over" it doesn't mean that they automatically dropped all acoustic recording in favor of electrical. I have several examples in my collection of discs that are obviously acoustic on one side and electric on the other. Then there are companies like Gennett and Brunswick that had quality control issues early on, went back to acoustic, and then started up electrical again once the kinks were worked out. Victor electrified their Camden studios some months before Oakland, if memory serves. I also have read elsewhere that OKeh continued using the acoustical/ Truetone process on their "field trip" recordings for quite some time after the main studio went electric. So, in most cases, I think we can generally assume a time frame for the transition, rather than a specific date and matrix number.