[78-L] 78 "Restoration Challenge"!

[Chris Zwarg]

Hello Antony,

at this moment I'm downloading your samples and I'll see what I can do with them :o)

One suggestion: Could you add at least one *acoustic* track to your selection? I have often noticed that certain engineers do a splendid work on electrics but are stumped with acoustics, or (less frequently) vice versa.

Best,

Chris Zwarg

At 02:29 23.12.2008, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Merry Christmas everyone.
>
>Recent talk on the list of differing restoration techniques, and a
>possible challenge...
>
>I'm never sure if restoration is really the right word, but
>"representation" might sound a bit posh... Whatever, it means doing
>things like declicking, decrackling, derumbling, EQing and/or whatever
>else takes your fancy to make the sound in your view more listenable,
>I guess.
>
>Anyhow, I've uploaded four flat sample transfers to:-
>
>www.historyanew.co.uk/78challenge/
>
>All jazz. One vinyl pressing, and three shellacs. Armstrong's West End
>Blues (1928) from an laminate Aussie Parlo, Duke's Braggin' in Brass
>(1938) from a lam US Brunswick, Hawk's It Sends Me (1934) from a UK
>Parlo (EMI crackle!), and Venuti & Lang's Doin' Things (1928) from
>vinyl (and probably an alt take!!)...
>
>Files are 96/24, stereo, in WAV format and ZIPped to make them a bit
>smaller. ~1/3 gig total.
>
>Together a nice batch of particular and general problems to overcome!
>
>So, if you have a little time over the holiday season, please feel
>free to download one or more of them and work on them as you would and
>then send me the result, saying a bit about what you did and whether
>you want me to put it up on the page for others to listen to or not.
>
>Or post the result on your site, with a link to the above page, and
>tell us about it here.
>
>I'd suggest high-rate MP3s (320kbps), but any reasonable format would
>be okay (FLAC for example, if you want non-lossy). I would not suggest
>a 96/24 WAV file for the final product as that would be huge of
>course! And if your result is mono, please make the file mono too.
>
>I'll post my own versions of all four sides, after a short while (i.e.
>when I've done them!), but don't wait for that.
>
>Finally, it's not a competition - no judging and no prizes! It's just
>for fun... :-)
>
>Best,
>Antony
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