[78-L] EQ ideas for transferring acoustic 78s?

Mike Daley mikedaley at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 07:17:17 PDT 2011


Garageband also has parametric EQs, which I haven't touched, and something
called "visual EQ" that I've messed around with.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Bandwidth.
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Wait until you get your hands on a parametric equaliser....those can fix
> > narrow bandwith anomalies like the odd honk or steady hum.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mike Daley <mikedaley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've been transferring a pile of acoustic 78, mostly from 1905-1915,
> using
> >> GarageBand. GB has a 31-band graphic EQ plugin that I've been using to
> >> reduce surface noise and bring out the best sounding frequencies to my
> >> ears.
> >> When I get a good sounding curve I save it, and I've been finding that
> >> certain curves match with record companies - thus I have a Columbia EQ,
> a
> >> Victor EQ, and so on.
> >> Here's a screenshot of the EQ:
> >>
> >>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/113739142351242060883/Records?authkey=Gv1sRgCN2CxfnNztqZjQE&feat=directlink
> >> Does anyone have tips for bringing the best out of records from this
> era?
> >>
> >> thanks for any advice.
> >>
> >> Mike
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