At 05:42 AM 2007-05-23, Tom Fine wrote:
One thing to consider about CEDAR. You might want to buy some of the
CBS/Sony reissues of their 78 catalog from the earlier era of CD's, for
instance any of the 2CD Duke Ellington sets.
...
One could take just about any of the Bluebird/BMG recent reissues done by
Doug Pomeroy to hear what I'm talking about. I think Doug is on-list and
will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe his method is use well-cleaned
metal parts whenever possible, play back very precisely and use digital
tools judiciously in the computer after A-D conversion. Finally, I'm sure
this is stating the obvious but even if you are successful in removing
much of the background noise, a 78 still has very limited frequency
response and will this never approach "fidelity" by the dictionary
definition of being true to the source.
Hi, Tom,
I think Doug has CEDAR (not Cambridge) and I really think that what you
are seeing are people who are in love with the tools, listen for the wrong
thing, and don't realize what they are doing wrong. Also, my taste is
minimal and even my minimal taste may be too much for some people. I don't
think we can fault the tools as much as the operational tradeoffs applied
to them.
While I don't use CEDAR processing, I do use Algorithmix and find it to be
a useful tool when properly applied.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
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