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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
>>>
>>>        
>