Throwback Thursday: Behind the Scenes with Ryan K. Smith and RCA Living Stereo at Sterling Sound 

I love these videos, please upload more for the people like me who did not watch them.

These behind the scenes videos are amazing, there is so much work that goes onto your lps Chad. Looking forward to some 2022 announcements.

Great

So very cool to see you dealing/working with "music history." 👍

Shout out Ryan K. Smith! Awesome work! Keep them comin'

When the subject are about master tapes & analog music- there’s nothing to say but listen. Digging this video!

Thank you so much for this!

AWESOME VIDEO! Super Cool! Love you CHAD! Acoustic Sounds for life

Great video. It's amazing that we can see these behind-the-scenes procedures. thanks for sharing. But Chad... HOLD THE PHONE HORIZONTALLY WHEN MAKING A VIDEO FOR RU-vid!.

That was great. Wish the video was in stereo for listening to the LCR playback. Thank you Chad and Ryan for sharing!

I am actually collecting vinyl records with RKS STERLING in the run-out groove^

Master Class!

Very cool!

I have several Scotch tapes from the 1950's that still play great.

I have three of the AP SACD's and one of the gold CD's from the Living Stereo Classical releases and they all sound just fantastic. I also own some of the original 90's RCA Living Stereo classical releases and those sound great as well. I'll be buying more of both series. I see that some of these titles will be seeing release by AP on LP and SACD in the coming months. Great look back at Ryan K Smith's mastering talent.

My question is where are all the master tapes being stored at from the drifferent companys?

Very interesting

If the 1/4” were stored as pancakes for a long time I would suggest getting some flanges onto them asap… the pack just doesn’t seem to want to hold its shape after 60+ years. Spent all of December putting back together scotch 111 masters that came apart all over the place, don’t even ask!! Very easily avoidable problem for the $20 or so it’ll cost you for the hardware.

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Ryan has mastered some of the best sounding vinyl records that I've heard. But for CD (or digital) mastering I've never heard better compact discs that the ones that were mastered by Nimbus (UK).

Can we not bother Mr. RKS in Nashville and get a new vid? :) Watched this vid several times before.

Love seeing this process but wish they'd show how they transfer it to DSD for the SACD releases. But notice Ryan WAS using a digital recording of the master tape he made for REFERENCE and not a VINYL record! Go figure! Was that the DSD file he recorded? Digital is supreme to vinyl! Proof right there!

I wish I could afford tape! I can barely handle the price of keeping a good record system!

When was this filmed?

I used to ask why would they make a 15 ips master when a 30 ips is technically better? I heard some folks say that the 15 ips has better low frequency (bass) response!

I'd be afraid to play it without the flang on it!

Why is the camera oriented portrait @6:45? It should be landscape