Remastering old recordings

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Totalrod2@aol.com wrote:
> There's no skips, just alot 'crackle" and
> "pops", especially on the 78's.

Cakewalk Pyro Plus comes with a plug-in for doing cleanup of this sort
of thing. Soundsoap is a general noise removal tool which has a very
good rep but it isn't specialized for this sort of surface noise and I'm
not sure how well it handles it. There are undoubtedly others.

I'm gonna be playing with that myself some time in the next year... but
for the 78's I'll probably borrow a friend's studio; he's made the
investment not only in software but in turntables and in preamps with
the appropriate curves for 78's...

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<Totalrod2@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone here have the software (AND a fair amount of experience) to
> digitally clean up old recordings? I have a few LP's and a couple of
> 78rpm's which I'd really like to have some audio restoration done on,
> and burned onto CD. In all, there's a total of about 9 or 10 songs I'm
> looking to have cleaned up. There's no skips, just alot 'crackle" and
> "pops", especially on the 78's. Can anyone here do this type of work?

I do. But I charge for it. For 10 songs you're looking at anywhere from
$150-600 depending on how much work is really needed. Clients always
underestimate how hard the job will be.

Peace,
Paul

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:45:58 GMT, "Paul Stamler"
<pstamlerhell@pobox.com> wrote:

>> Does anyone here have the software (AND a fair amount of experience) to
>> digitally clean up old recordings? I have a few LP's and a couple of
>> 78rpm's which I'd really like to have some audio restoration done on,
>> and burned onto CD. In all, there's a total of about 9 or 10 songs I'm
>> looking to have cleaned up. There's no skips, just alot 'crackle" and
>> "pops", especially on the 78's. Can anyone here do this type of work?
>
>I do. But I charge for it. For 10 songs you're looking at anywhere from
>$150-600 depending on how much work is really needed. Clients always
>underestimate how hard the job will be.

And, to amplify, many local bozo's like me can do a decent transfer
from vinyl. Only a real specialist can get the goods from "78's".

It takes specialized machinery and a lot of experimentation. In this
newsgroup, in the USA, Paul and Scott have established rep's doing the
gig.


For a (to me) spectacular commercial example of what's possible, after
Cedar processing, check the Steven Lasker transfers on Sister Rosetta
Tharpe's _The Gospel of the Blues_ ,all cut before I was born.

which won't hurt anybody's poor soul to hear anyway. And speaking of
the Reverend Gary Davis, Hot Tuna is coming to "my" theater this
season. Worth sticking around for,

Chris Hornbeck
"Don't panic."

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"Chris Hornbeck" <chrishornbeckremovethis@att.net> wrote in message
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> which won't hurt anybody's poor soul to hear anyway. And speaking of
> the Reverend Gary Davis, Hot Tuna is coming to "my" theater this
> season. Worth sticking around for,

They're coming here, too. And I'm working both nights. [Choke!]

Peace,
Paul

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In article <1114651496.434204.30150@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<Totalrod2@aol.com> wrote:
>Does anyone here have the software (AND a fair amount of experience) to
>digitally clean up old recordings? I have a few LP's and a couple of
>78rpm's which I'd really like to have some audio restoration done on,
>and burned onto CD. In all, there's a total of about 9 or 10 songs I'm
>looking to have cleaned up. There's no skips, just alot 'crackle" and
>"pops", especially on the 78's. Can anyone here do this type of work?

I can, but mostly I just do the transcription work and send the processing
to someone like Monte McGuire up in Boston.

Getting the records clean, getting them played as well as possible on good
equipment with the correct styli, is half the battle. The digital systems
are great at removing impulse noise, but they can't do anything about
tracking distortion.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."