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

[David Lennick]

And if you look at blasting on a graph, it's a ton of spikes (like a lotta 
ticks close together).

dl

On 1/13/2014 9:30 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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