[Vintage-Audio] RCA Nashville Studio

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

Hi All,

Alright, you wizards of all things vacuum and vinyl, let's get serious here.

The famous RCA Nashville, TN studio. Besides the most incredible collection 
of studio musicians anyone could dream of having under one roof; Floyd 
Cramer, Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Anita Kerr Singers/Quartet, Charlie 
McCoy etc., what is it that gives this particular recording studio the 
absolute best sound of any studio? What did RCA, or whomever, do to that 
facility that they did not do to any of their other recording studios? The 
instrumental albums and vocal albums recorded at the RCA Nashville studio 
sound better in every way than any other recordings I have heard by any 
studio anywhere. The question is, why?

As a footnote: I had some audio engineering types check the RCA Nashville 
studio recordings on vinyl against other labels, including some of the 
tremendous studios in England and Germany. We eve checked against the 
Command Records 35Mm recordings, remember those? The results showed that the 
RCA studio was somehow able to reproduce the audible musical spectrum with 
almost 100% accuracy. Some other major recording studios did an excellent 
job, but not a one of them were as good across the spectrum as the RCA 
Nashville studio. Truly amazing.

So what is the secret?

Duane W8DBF