Hi Tom,
I wish I could share your optimism about future developments.
Haber's work has been concerned with developing and improving his optical mechanism.
As far as I know, he hasn't done any work on audio restoration (the first demo which he
released several years ago was quite noisy), as it is not his field of expertise. But the ultra
high resolution of his scans offer much information about the nature of disc surface noises,
which may help those working to perfect noise removal processors.
Doug Pomeroy
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> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:18:52 -0400
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Advice needed on removing / minimizing tape bleed-through
>
> Hi Ted:
>
> Much better!
>
> The wonders of modern DSP in careful craftspeople's hands!
>
> The next frontier will be figuring out how to grab the just musical content out of a noisy grooved
> disk and then un-do the problems of groove distortion and disk wear. I hope Carl Haber's work leads
> there -- scan the groove and then come up with some kind of Photoshop-like algorhythm to "heal"
> groove wear and the material on the groove surface that produces playback noise (I'm assuming that
> comes down to rough-surface shellac, which would need to be differentiated from minute lateral
> changes in the groove, ie soft-dynamic music content). I am optimistic that such a system will
> emerge in my lifetime. Imagine few-dozen-dollar software that enables you to scan your 78RPM disks
> on a high-resolution flatbed, then "heals" the ravages of time and the problems with the original
> shellac compound and saves a clean,crisp audio file to your hard drive.
>
> -- Tom Fine
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