Jessica Thompson worked with this collection and wrote a paper and presented at ARSC on it.
A recommendation for restoring a 78 from raw formats, like what we have on archive.org, by George Brock-Nannestad <[email protected]> said he liked “ClickRepair suite of software from Australia” in a post to
more noise is still there, I run repeatedly at 80 until the reported
interventions get to a number of 4000 or so. I can then manually remove any
clicks that are left.
I don’t use the denoise or buy sales lead dehiss, preferring to use declick at very low
settings (78’s don’t have hiss – what you hear as hiss is the combination of
I start with a setting of 2 then 4 then 6 . I leave the settings the same
then just find whether 1 or 2 or 3 passes will polish the higher noise away.
Decrackle doesn’t affect the high frequencies but declick does. This process
takes a little time but I almost never find that any distortion is
introduced to the sound. I hate getting to the end of the record where the
My “go to” software for restoration work is Izotope. However, I also have Adobe Audition, Diamond Cut, Pro Tools, Samplitude, and Sound Forge available for specific situations. As Ted Kendall points out: Hearing and Judgment play the major roles in both transfer and restoration. To that I would add Experience. And, as always, start with the best possible source.
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Include your digitized collection. If you have already dig.