Interview with Hans O. Dietze, July 12, 1996

Project: Chasing Sound Oral History Project

Interview Summary

This is an interview with RCA audio engineer Hans Dietze. Dietze discusses the competitive methods that made RCA a successful recording studio during his time there in the 1970s. Dietze and the interviewer discuss missing and destroyed records from RCA and other studios' archives. Dietze and the interviewer discuss the possibility of building an archive of recording studios and sound technology that was developed during the 20th century. Dietze and the interviewer discuss innovation by various independent audio engineers during the 20th century, as well as contact information for various sources related to RCA archival records.

Interview Accession

2016oh183_chase015

Interviewee Name

Hans O. Dietze

Interviewer Name

Susan Schmidt Horning

Interview Date

1996-07-12

Interview Keyword

RCA Studios RCA Victor Studios Recording studios Recording business Recording Recording and manufacturing materials Acoustics Acoustical Society Audio Engineering Society (AES) Institute for Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Dietze, Hans O. Ampex Electric Corporation General Electric Company

Interview LC Subject

Audio engineers Audio engineering Sound engineers Sound engineering Audio history Sound--History--20th Century Sound--History Sound recording industry--History Record industry

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Dietze, Hans O. Interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. 12 Jul. 1996. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Dietze, H.O. (1996, July 12). Interview by S. S. Horning. Chasing Sound Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Dietze, Hans O., interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. July 12, 1996, Chasing Sound Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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