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

[David Lennick]

Being old school, I don't use my graphic equalizer for anything these days 
except 60hz hum. My old mixer has some nice features that allow me to remove 
mid-range hump or even attenuate the mid-range if it's deficient, boost upper 
mid-range and so on. And my Dynaco preamp (a great little box, I bought a 
second one as backup or to use strictly for phase reversal) has 3 rolloff settings.

dl

On 4/21/2011 11:09 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 21/04/2011, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Wait until you get your hands on a parametric equaliser....those can
>> fix narrow bandwith anomalies like the odd honk or steady hum.
>>
> Yes, I think a two band parametric would do a better job than a 32-band
> fixed-frequencies device.
>
>> 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
>
> Regards