[78-L] Silence (no 78 hiss) on CD issues

[David Lennick]

This applies to films as well, by the way..I've watched many classic films 
where the soundtracks were unlistenable because some 19-year-old cranked up the 
noise removal processes to 11 and walked away. The other night we watched Pinky 
on TCM and we kept hearing thumping and banging noises. Nobody was operating a 
pile driver outside, the burglars downstairs had all gone to sleep..this was 
artifacts on the soundtrack (which also sounded like a poor telephone line).

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I had someone tell me (over on the Talking Machine Forum) that they liked my
> transfer of my Vocalion reissue 78 of Chick Webb's 'Stomping at the Savoy'
> better than the version on a Columbia CD they had, as mine sounded more like
> music, never mind the shellac hiss of a V+ disc, compared with the
> noise-free but under-water-like sound of that over-processed transfer on
> that CD.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
>> The world is full of <deleteds>. I have several in my own family.
>> However...as long as they do not alter the highs and lows and maintain the
>> same dynamic (dB)characteristics of the 78
>> I don't miss the hiss.
>> Sometimes the surface hiss masks the  the vocalist's glottal hiss on
>> transcriptions and ffrr's, for example..
>>
>> Al Simmons
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 1:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Silence (no 78 hiss) on CD issues
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
>>>> At 09:29 PM 2/4/2010, you wrote:
>>>>> I remember a Golden Gate Quartet CD on Sony that had that same "too much
>>>>> silence" effect.
>>>> Then why do they kill the hiss on CD reissues of old 78 rpm
>>>> recordings? It's silly to alter an old recording like that.......
>>>>
>>> Because the <deleteds> that run "record" companies assume that ALL CD
>>> buyers
>>> want the "NO SURFACE NOISE" (supposed) advantage of CD's over analog
>>> records...?!
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
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