Cory, Ted and others-
On restoration-- what do you suggest for restoration?
Already people have posted 50k 78's to the Internet Archive, many of
which have been restored, which is good.
A new push is to transfer 100's of thousands of sides to build a
reference collection for preservation, research, and discovery. Best
case we bring millions online to get closer to the estimate, I heard
from David Seubert, of 3M sides recorded in that format.
I am listening to them raw and having a blast, but as you all know the
surface noise can be quite high, especially on our earlier records.
I am hoping that if we do the transfers very well and very consistently
then there may be some people willing to invest the time to develop
tools/techniques made possible by having different stylii and high
bitrate samples of the discs. This kind of research is what this
project is for. But this is a hope at this point.
For the record, here are the sides that have been digitized so far:
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood each have 9 flacs in 96kHz/24bit
format that are downloadable to aid research and preservation.
Any suggestions, especially ones that could be applied economically,
would be most welcome.
-brewster
On 7/8/17 10:59 PM, Corey Bailey wrote:
> Hi Brewster,
>
> As one who transfers the analog audio from discs (and audio tape) and,
> does restoration work on a copy of the digital files, I can tell you
> that each and every record is somewhat different. I've done hundreds,
> literally, from instantaneous discs (cardboard laminated Recordio's to
> one-off lacquers) to LP's and each one requires some sort of
> individual attention if you want to maintain the original integrity
> and musicality of the recording. Yes, one winds up with some custom
> settings but each disc will, no doubt, require some individual
> tweaking. Batch processing is a nice thought though. One that I wished
> would work on several occasions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Corey
> Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
> www.baileyzone.net
>
> On 7/8/2017 10:10 PM, Brewster Kahle wrote:
>> Lou,
>>
>> We hope the transfers will be good for researching different cleanup
>> approaches, basically be a good reference collection for this kind of
>> work.
>>
>> We dont have funding at this point for cleanup, but hopefully it comes
>> through us or others.
>>
>> I was thinking with a consistent collection of hundreds of thousands of
>> sides, we could attract some advanced techniques to be tried... dont
>> know if it makes sense, but we might be able to do "semantic"
>> restoration:
>> http://blog.archive.org/2017/06/03/dreaming-of-semantic-audio-restoration-at-a-massive-scale/#comments
>>
>>
>> -brewster
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/7/17 12:01 PM, Lou Judson wrote:
>>
>>> Wow, Kitty Carlisle sining? I thought she was just a game show
>>> contestant….
>>>
>>> Nice transfers. If there was funding I could take time from my work
>>> to do cleanup, which I love to do. But at the moment, I don’t have
>>> time to cleanup my studio! :-)
>>>
>>> <L>
>>> Lou Judson
>>> Intuitive Audio
>>> 415-883-2689
>>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Brewster Kahle<[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> We just got the new ~3000 78rpm transfers from george blood's
>>>> company--
>>>> fun! We have a script that leverages the dates on
>>>> 78discography.com and
>>>> discogs.com to put dates on them.
>>>>
>>>> We got just under 1/2 of them to have dates:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=shiptracking%3A%2216651_16727_16776_16831%22%20AND%20date%3A%2A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and these don't have dates:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=shiptracking%3A%2216651_16727_16776_16831%22%20AND%20NOT%20date%3A%2A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are interested in researching any of these for dates, genres,
>>>> anything that you find fun, and put the information in the review.
>>>> There are interns at the Archive of Contemporary Music doing this-- we
>>>> have a slack channel for anyone that wants to join in. For those
>>>> that
>>>> get really into it, we can grant privs to edit the items themselves.
>>>>
>>>> -brewster
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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