Yes.
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> On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Michael Eldridge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> This is a question for the sound engineers: I'm tracking down some calypso
> records from the 1940s--one artist, several labels--for a possible reissue
> compilation. In most instances, I would be reaching out to collectors for
> clean copies of commercial pressings. But in one case involving about
> twenty sides, half-inch, two-track "safeties" still exist. (I'm told that
> all of the label's masters were destroyed in the 1960s.) The only problem:
> they're safeties not of the original mono masters, but of
> "reprocessed-for-stereo" versions done for a reissue LP that came out in
> the early 1960s.
>
> Is there any way of "un-reprocessing" such recordings? They're not
> absolutely horrible--the channel separation isn't ridiculously exaggerated,
> for instance--but they do have that grating, artificial, tell-tale "echo."
> Would I be better off just using good 78s in this case, too?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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