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
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Scream Along With Marvel
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Technical notes:
- Technics DD turntable, Shure MM 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 Kbps CBR.
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42 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?
11. THE BEAT » Blog Arc&hellip | August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
[...] has a 24 hour tribute, with hourly posting. Spurge has a visual tribute. We’ll link to the epic Marvel Marching Society recording, which, although it does spotlight other Marvel personnel, also includes the King’s voice and [...]
12. FallenWarrior | September 8th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
There’s got to be somewhere to download this. I can’t find it anywhere.
13. DOuG pRATt | September 8th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
How about I just send it to you? I’ve sent it to at least half a dozen people. There is no copyright anywhere, on either the disk or the sleeve, so I don’t own it.
14. Jim | September 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hey Doug,
These are great!
I never heard the first Flexidisc before.
I still have the second one, a little worse for wear….
(still have my ‘no-prize” too!)
If you don’t mind sending copies of both recordings, I’d sure love to have them!
Thanks!!
15. DOuG pRATt | September 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Jim — Sure. I’ll send them to you when I get home tonight. They’re big files, and some people have had them rejected by their account’s mail server. If that happens to you, I can encode them at a lower bit rate.
16. Rainer | October 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Boy, am I glad I bought the 2nd record recently!
Due to the fact that I won’t play it, with the help of the above link I will be able to sing along as well!
Thanks, great work!
17. DOuG pRATt | October 27th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Yeah, that’s the plight of collectors — having something that can’t be touched! I’d like to know who wrote the music and arrangement, and where the recording was made.
18. Eileen Arnold | November 9th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Is it possible to get an audio recording of the “We belong” track anywhere? I am stage managing a show and the artist would like to use it.
19. DOuG pRATt | November 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
You want just the second song? Sure. I can copy it out of the original WAV file, encode in MP3, and send it to you.
20. Eileen Arnold | November 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
That would be fantastic! Thank you! you can send it to eileenarnold@____.___
21. DOuG pRATt | November 10th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Done. Check your mail.
22. Emily | November 21st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Thanks for posting these, they were so much fun to listen to.
23. Grant E. | January 24th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
I had never heard these before! Thanks for a great little bit of Marvel’s silver age! Would be much appreciated if you could send them to me!
24. DOuG pRATt | January 24th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Sent. OOPS! Your mailbox rejected them. Together the files are over 15 MB.
25. Grant E. | January 25th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Got ‘em! Thanks “DOGRAT”!!
26. TooTallTony | February 6th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Could someone please send me a copy too? Thanks in advance.
27. DOuG pRATt | February 7th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I’ll send them to you. (Your comments weren’t deleted, they were waiting for me to check them.)
28. Ron | February 11th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Wow! My head exploded with an attack of Nostalgia! Please oh please send me copies of both records! What an amazing surprise you have provided to all Silver Age (and silver haired) Marvel fans.
29. DOuG pRATt | February 13th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Ron – I sent ‘em.
30. Ron | February 13th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
AWESOME!!! Many, many thanks!
31. Rainer | March 25th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Hello Doug,
would you please please send me the mp3s as well?
Thank you very much in advance.
Rainer
32. DOuG pRATt | March 25th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Rainer – I tried, but your mail server says the files exceed the maximum size, even when sent separately.
33. Nino | April 7th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Howdy Doug,
I really love these and would like to use them in a presentation for my speech class. They would be perfect. If you could send the files, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks for restoring these. They’re really wonderful.
Nino
34. DOuG pRATt | April 7th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Nino — Done. You’re on Gmail, so the files shouldn’t be rejected for being too big.
35. Rick | April 9th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Hi Doug:
These are great! Brings back a lot of memories. I actually had these when I was a kid. I hate to be a beggar, but could you please send to me? Thanks!
Rick
36. DOuG pRATt | April 9th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Rick – You got ‘em!
37. tb | April 17th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Hey Doug – Cool page. Would you mind sending me copies of both recordings? Thanks in advance!
38. DOuG pRATt | April 17th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
They’re on their way. Distributing these recordings is turning into a cottage industry for me. Too bad I can’t charge anything for the service!
39. Charles Phipps | May 8th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Hi Doug,
Could you please e-mail copies of both records to me? I would be greatly in your debt!
Thank you so much,
Charles Phipps
40. DOuG pRATt | May 8th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Charles – I tried, but the mail was rejected because the files are too big.
41. Gary Ludwig | May 13th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Hi – This was a great. I haven’t heard any of this since I was a kid and joined the MMMS. But the second audio file comes up as “file not found”. Any chance of a fix? I was really hoping to be able to hear that song again after all these years.
(Maybe you could post a link for downloading these? I hate to be yet another person who asks you to send them out; and I’m not sure my ISP would take files that large anyway.)
42. DOuG pRATt | May 13th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Gary, I just sent them to you, but you’re right. It would be easier to put links to the files on the post so people could download them. I’ll do that. There are no copyright symbols on either record, by the way, neither on the sleeves nor the discs.
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