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

[David Lennick]

ps..we may HEAR 120 but what shows up on the display is 60hz.

On 4/21/2011 1:04 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Actually I've had discs with 25 hz hum, recorded in Canada in the days when
> Toronto ran on 25 cycle power (remember "cycles"?). Never 50 though. What's fun
> is a dubbed lacquer, possibly off speed, where you don't know which hum to
> pitch to.
>
> dl
>
> On 4/21/2011 12:59 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> Yeahbut... wouldn't that be a 50Hz hum in Canadia? Or, if the record was
>> made in the US and actually carries a 60Hz hum along with the
>> information plus a 50Hz line hum in your power train, you'd have the
>> worst of both worlds?
>> Also, I understand that what we call 60Hz hum is actually 120Hz hum -
>> what we're hearing is  actually the 2nd harmonic, not the fundament.
>> Means you'd have to rolloff around 250Hz to catch the 1st, 2nd&   3rd
>> harmonics.
>> No?
>> Mal
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 4/21/2011 5:06 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> 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
>>
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