[78-L] question about wavering pitch on pre-matrix Victors

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Andrew Rose of Pristine Records has been using Celemony for his recent 
Schnabel series, and all the other records I imagine.

pristinclassical.com I believe is the url

joe salerno


On 10/18/2011 7:43 PM, Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I have been testing the new program made by Celemony, called CAPSTAN,
> and have found that it does a remarkable job of correcting drifting
> pitch in
> most cases.  I'm told that two short before/after samples, which they
> processed
> for me, will be played in the Clemony/Melodyne booth at the AES
> Convention
> this weekend.  (Capstan costs $4500 and requires a computer with 64-bit
> architecture.)
>
> Doug Pomeroy
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> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:11:06 -0400
> From: Mike Daley<mikedaley at gmail.com>
> Subject: [78-L] question about wavering pitch on pre-matrix Victors
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> I've been enjoying the mp3s of 2011 ARSC presentations that have
> recently gone up, especially David Giovannoni's and David Sager's
> contributions on phonautograms and pre-matrix Victors. Listening now
> to Bert Williams' "All Going Out And NothIng Coming In" (Victor 994)
> from 1901 on the National Jukebox, I notice the speed fluctuations
> that David S. mentioned as one of the many idiosyncrasies of
> pre-matrix Victor masters, along with misaligned spindle holes, etc.
>
> My question has to do with attempts to correct the speed fluctuations
> digitally. I would be interested to hear speed-corrected versions of
> these early Williams and Walker sides, many of which suffer from the
> same problem. Does anyone on the list know of software that does
> automatic speed correction, or does it need to be done manually in
> editing software? Has anyone tried to do this with records cut this
> way?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mike Daley
>
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Joe Salerno