Comments on: UPDATED: Emory Cook, Binaural Recording Pioneer https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/ information and ideas about audio history Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom Fine https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-649811 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:00:51 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-649811 Here are photos of Cook’s plant in Norwalk CT, circa 1960s. The plant was both a small-scale record pressing operation and a tape duplication factory. Note all the Scully tape machines in the duplication business. I suspect all of it was custom-made by Cook and/or Scully. As far as I know, Scully never made tape-duplication equipment akin to Ampex’s 3200 systems.

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]]> By: sandy stone https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-602359 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:16:27 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-602359 In reply to Evan.

Capps CM2030.

]]> By: Evan https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-600314 Sat, 13 Jun 2020 01:57:59 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-600314 Hi! I know this is an old thread. I’m recently obsessed by the Luiz Bonfa “Solo in Rio” album, which was evidently recorded by Emory Cook, later donated to Smithsonian Folkways as part of his Cook Records catalog.

This album… recorded 1959, sounds just phenomenal. I found some liner notes that suggest Cook was traveling and recording with a Nagra III recorded. I wonder what microphones he was using?

]]> By: Richard C Hicks https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-380533 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 19:33:37 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-380533 Retired electrical engineer who worked with Sonny Hindmon, well known in the mid to late 40’s, we developed t.

]]> By: Mark E. Malasics https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-354114 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:41:30 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-354114 In reply to James Rollinson.

Yes, James, I also remember well, and working with you at his plant on Ely Avenue. Glad to know you’re doing well.

]]> By: James Rollinson https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-309292 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:40:04 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-309292 I enjoy this site for it brings to mind many fond memories of the years I spent working with Emory Cook. He was truly by definition a genius.

]]> By: Period Technology (a writer’s guide to the 60s) | A Rain of Frogs https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-161290 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:27:57 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-161290 […] (Audio Engineering Society), Chalk Hill Media Audio Museum,More on Emory Cook at Preservation SoundMore about the eccentricities of the phonograph record from Larry Robinson at […]

]]> By: George Brock-Nannestad https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-135880 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:24:44 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-135880 It is well worth it to read the two-part Emory Cook feature by Daniel Lang in The New Yorker dated 3 and 10 March 1956. The perspective broadens!

Kind regards,

George

]]> By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-54374 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:43:05 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-54374 Stereo was a tit for tat affair back then.

]]> By: Garrison https://www.preservationsound.com/emory-cook-binaural-recording-pioneer/#comment-41769 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:09:39 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5695#comment-41769 It’s amazing that in the 50s no one had a problem with the bare mammalian protuberances in an “artistic” setting but now they do.

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