RE: 78 transfers

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>The 
>problem is not a hum that improper grounding causes, but rather the 
>scratchy noises that 78's have.

There isn't any automatic way of dealing with this, so far as I know. The 
"traditional" method involves days or weeks of cutting out pops and skips. It's 
easier now that things can be cut electronically, instead of physically, but 
it's still a tremendous amount of work. Henry Sapoznik has overseen some 
releases of remastered 78s that were quite good, I thought, although I believe 
that the work was done by someone else.

The key is to get as good a master from the original 78s from which to work. 
Then, alas, to actually do the work ;-).

ari


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