[78-L] Record Noises - Identify and Understand Cause

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

And then, there's "ticks". I don't know of any official or generally 
accepted definitions for any of these words. Ticks and clicks are pretty 
much the same to me, or maybe ticks are even smaller than clicks? 
Whatever.....

Another way to approach this is to look for tutorials on youtube or the 
software maker's web sites. Izotope, for instance, has a bunch, but RX3 
is expensive.

Beststuff4u, What software do you intend to use?

joe salerno

On 1/12/2014 9:18 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> And then there's "blasting." Vocals or hot instrumental passages
> distorted due to the source record having  been played (repeatedly?)
> with a worn stylus. Common on records that have been played on acoustic
> reproducers. Hard to clean up.
> Malcolm
>
> *******
>
> On 1/12/2014 4:36 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 1/12/2014 7:53 PM, beststuff4u at frontiernet.net wrote:
>>
>>> Hiss, Wear, Pop, Crackle, Click, and Clipping
>> Here's what the words mean to me.
>>
>> Hiss - typically low level broadband noise. Used to be called "air". The
>> word "hiss" sounds like hiss.
>>
>> A click is a smaller event and typically there are lots of them in rapid
>> succession. Clicks tend to be higher freqs. Maybe above 3000 Hz. Clicks
>> can be created by static electricity discharges.
>>
>> Pop - to me a pop is a relatively large transient event. Pops may be
>> wider bandwidth. Can be caused by record damage or debris on the surface.
>>
>> Crackle - I think of crackle as midrange clicks, below 3500 Hz. Fairly
>> steady, hopefully low level, sometimes caused by impurities in pressing
>> material.
>>
>> Clipping happens in the digital domain, I would think you are not going
>> to have this if you are making the transfers properly.
>>
>> Wear - never heard this term used other than a general description of a
>> record's condition. I have never heard of a "wear filter" in any
>> program. AFAIK wear is a conglomeration of faults.
>>
>> I'm sure others on the list will have something to say about this.
>>
>> Joe Salerno
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Joe Salerno