The MMMS Records Remastered
September 23rd, 2007
Since it seems I’m perhaps the sole provider on the Net of the audio from the two Flexidiscs that Marvel Comics produced in the 1960’s, I thought I’d offer them with superior sound compared to what I posted five years ago. Here they are, remastered for the best possible audio fidelity.
The Voices of Marvel
Scream Along With Marvel
Technical notes:
- Technics DD turntable, Shure cartridge, AGI phono pre-amp.
- Captured from line level source, 24-bit resolution, 48 kHz sample rate.
- A 60 Hz hum in the The Voices Of Marvel has been removed with a 120 Hz high-pass filter.
- Click removal used sparingly. No other noise reduction or equalization.
- A dimple in The Voices Of Marvel causes a recurring thump between 3:15 and 3:35. It was reduced, but not eliminated, by the high-pass filter.
- The left channel in each recording was deemed better and was used as the source, forced into mono, then exported as lossless WAV files.
- WAV files converted to MP3 at 256 kHz.
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10 Comments Add your own
1. The Wright Opinion&hellip | September 24th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
[...] UPDATE!: Doug Pratt has now remastered both sides of the MMMS flexidisc. Courtesy The Beat. [...]
2. Dog Rat | September 24th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
The video links to “In Search of Steve Ditko” that Mark Evanier and I both used for our customized YouTube player playlists have been pulled. But don’t worry, I have the entire program.
By the way, the split in the picture is the way the flap on the back of the record sleeve looks. I made no attempt to re-align it. Maybe I’ll try to do that later.
3. Journalista - the news we&hellip | September 25th, 2007 at 4:22 am
[...] [Multimedia] Doug Pratt presents streaming audio of the Merry Marvel Marching Society flexidisc records. (Link via Heidi MacDonald.) [...]
4. Face Rockery » Blog&hellip | September 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
[...] ITEM! The Voices of Marvel remastered! Doug Pratt remastered two Marvel Flexidiscs from the 1960’s. Gee wiz, I love how people talked back then! [...]
5. jeanie beanie | September 29th, 2007 at 10:19 am
All I know is, I had to listen to this so much as a kid, the lyrics will be forever burned into my brain. Never mind the specs! I LOVE it!
6. DOuG pRATt | September 29th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
If everybody ignored the specs, you’d be left with the “before” view of what I show here.
7. rst20xx | March 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Awesome, thanks!
8. DOuG pRATt | March 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
You’re welcome! Many of the hits this blog gets are for either the MMMS records, or the Steve Ditko documentary.
That “thump” that comes up while Don Heck is talking bugs me. I’ll try to filter it without otherwise affecting the sound quality.
9. Mark A. Worden | November 20th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Hi Doug! It was wonderful to finally be able to hear these for the very first time–I never had the money to send in as a kid to become a member! Is there any way to download these from somewhere? If not–it really was great to hear them!!! Thanks a million!
10. DOuG pRATt | November 20th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Check your e-mail, Mark. Stan G. “our demon colorer” as Stan Lee called him, told me last weekend in New York that he has a pile of never-played copies of “The Voices at Marvel” somewhere in his house, but he’s not sure where they are. He asked me how much I thought they might be worth, but I really have no idea. I’d be willing to pay $100 for a virgin copy. Better yet, I wonder where the original tape is?
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