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

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

I have been using a older version of CoolEdit Pro (v1.4) for quite a few years now, doing transfers.  It has some very good EQ programming capabilities built into it... all it takes is some doinking, and it will adjust on the fly. 

I agree with the 'use your ears' methodology, as every acoustical recording engineer had their own secret diaphragm-tuning tweaks, most of which were never written down (Mike B had a thread on this a few years back on 78-L I believe)... even with early electric recording, EQ curves were all over the place (from my own observations), but started to somewhat standardize in the 30s (again, my observations from doing my own transfers).

Unfortunately, most of my net-available transfers have gone byebye, since the hosting for my audioblog audio files went boom, and a protracted fight to get the hard drive containing the transfers has proven fruitless... and I know exactly WHERE said hard drive is sitting! It's just motivating the owner of the drive to ship it to me so I can extract the files...

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: Erwin Kluwer <ekluwer at gmail.com>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:28:40 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] EQ ideas for transferring acoustic 78s?

Just use your ears! In contrary what a lot a people believe... there were no
fixed EQs  for early recordings.  Acousic recordings should be played flat
(no equalization at all)..  Other  people believe in adding equalisation to
compensate for the distortion of the curve (mainly introduced by the
recording horn). But since there are so many variables involved you actually
need a graphic display of the curve to be able to restore it... Bottom line:
tons of variables, different vison of experts,no industry standard what so
ever...Best way to go..go for what sounds best to you...

Erwin