tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post704539199895487908..comments2023-10-02T20:56:19.078+10:00Comments on Sounds Like Shellac: Do want my preamp, software?Ade42http://www.blogger.com/profile/12979939181844963877noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post-70235436361117697702010-04-30T14:02:27.018+10:002010-04-30T14:02:27.018+10:00WOW! nearly two years ago!. fuck, i was only 12 wh...WOW! nearly two years ago!. fuck, i was only 12 when i made that comment. im now 14. how time flies bygoodiesguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05571851459902668336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post-2545877228015319612008-10-19T08:53:00.000+10:002008-10-19T08:53:00.000+10:00Hey "ade42" I Agree With What Your Saying.I Put A ...Hey "ade42" <BR/><BR/>I Agree With What Your Saying.<BR/><BR/>I Put A Lot Of Effort Into Restoring Stuff And I'm only 12yrs old.<BR/><BR/>At The Moment I'm Learning About "Color Recovery" From TeleRecordings.<BR/><BR/>It Is Very Interesting.<BR/><BR/>I Will Post some More stuff on my blog soon.i will let ya know when its posted.goodiesguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05571851459902668336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post-21428358361945299302008-10-18T00:01:00.000+10:002008-10-18T00:01:00.000+10:00Man, do I feel your pain! It seems that this art o...Man, do I feel your pain! It seems that this art of ours goes under appreciated time and time again. Then again, a lot of "professionals" claim to know how to properly restore music. All these pro's seem to know how to do only one thing - no-noise the stuff to death.<BR/><BR/>Nobody appreciates the amount of time, dedication, skill, detail and love that goes into properly restoring/remastering music.<BR/><BR/>As for selling your CD's - let me look into that. The ones I sell are sold with the original LP. LP+CD is a must as most of the restoration work I do still falls under copyright law. I also only sell full LP's - thus why I take so long to restore them.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, keep up your good work and ignore the bad stuff. I'm sure there are tons of other people who love your work but don't comment on it.<BR/><BR/>Have you thought about selling your discs on ebay?<BR/><BR/>On a side note: Any chance you can upload that Louis Armstrong concert in FLAC? It would be much appreciated.<BR/><BR/>- LuisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post-17523155412183584372008-10-17T14:05:00.000+10:002008-10-17T14:05:00.000+10:00right on.. that's exactly what the "truth" of the...right on.. that's exactly what the "truth" of the matter is. <BR/>Iv'e spent years "dressed in rags" so to speak to be able to do all this. I had to take a loan out to buy the $100 Turntable (which arrived dead) and only last night showed signs of breaking down completely. This a can't afford to pay back!!. It's been well over 10 years since i had a "holiday" or "ate out" or enjoyed life like most of humanity can do.. Ok that last satement kight sound "kinda" sad but it's true. Ive just been holed up doing this and working for child wages in crappy jobs while desperately tryng to pay the rent. <BR/>And when some "kid" comes along and basicly demands that I tell him "everything I Know" or he'll "tell his dad" or "find and kill me and steel my stuff" It get's a bit wierd. these people artue that "everything is on the net" and sooner or later they will find out how I do it.. well great I say. that's what I had to do, And if though hard work and trial and error they get to do what I can do then they have really acheved something.. but just to come to me and beg for my "property" for nothing because thy have loads of cash and grandad said <BR/>"it would be a good idea If i set up a 78 cd company, he seems to like the old boring music, so give me your plans and software"<BR/><BR/>This really insults me to the core.. as i LOVE the music I restore. in fact im a fan of about 100 years of music. nothing "bores" me. <BR/>then I get irate emails and even one or two "real" letters<BR/>from the parents of these children I insult so..<BR/>Most of those letters treat me with no respect and in fact "Blame" me of the psychological problems of thier children since I "denied them of their rightful future" by saying no to just handing over my own software/hardware. <BR/><BR/>This I find strange.. I mean most of these "parents" are my age!! <BR/>and for the most part live very comfortable lives. <BR/>so that's one part of it and since I posted that post. ive had my email box filed every day with requests for my gear. <BR/><BR/>but it's great you can sell your work for that kind of money!! it sounds like a fourtune to me!!. <BR/><BR/>but remember all my restorations take 10-20 seconds to do. they are just meant to be "demos" the real restoration work I'd do if I was paied. I leart that from a freind who put lots of his "out of print" Lp's on a blog a few years ago. his stuff was good too. (well admittedly I built him my RIIA version of my pr-amp tweaked a little to "open up" the top end)<BR/>his work was "stolen" by somebody downloading all his tracks and burring them to cd's then selling them on amazon for ridiculous amounts. <BR/>this broke the My friend's heart. <BR/>He had this whole Lp to mp3/flac down pat. his transfer's were truly inspiring (ok i had a hand in it!!) but some a-hole ripped him off!! when we contacted the "seller" he wrote a barrage of abuse back to us, a legal letter from his aternoy etc etc.. funny thing is that my mate put a 17-20 khz tone. "morseing" his name and address at least once per side!! <BR/>now the only reason he set this LP page up (all OOP Lp's too) wa sthat he loved 50's "space pop" and other forms of early stereo Lp's, had just retired had loads of money at his disposal so the Stealing of his work was'nt the problem, it was that he was very proud of his work and would like the listener to know how much he cared for his work. and seeing his work being peddled by another with no credit was too much to take. so he shut his blog down which upset him as he thrived on the "comments" by other users to his transfers. <BR/>About 4 years ago I let some broadcasters have a cd or two of my work on 78's ( i was broadcasting the stuff myself and they wanted to Plug my show with examples) somehow after I left the station one or two of my tracks appered on commecial cd. I spent a year eemailing and phoning everyone at the company who released the cd but they could and would not tell me who thier "compiler" was. this was my work I cried! but they stated it could be any one's work "it's an old song". but there was a glaring fault in the restoration like the old statment "only a mother would know" <BR/>I kew where it was (no one else did) and a A-B comparison proved without a shadow of a doubt it was mine. (and to be honest Ive improved a lot since 5 years ago with my use of Noise reduction) <BR/>of couse I was well pleased my work could be acsessed on cd , but not so pleased that no one knew who "remasted" the track, A name was on the cd liner notes but it was made up. since my sabre shaking at the cd company the cd has been repressed minus my track. they still clamed i did not do the "work " on the pulled track (to stop me making any claims of payment for the cd's sold) <BR/>the only reason I contacted the cd company was to let em hear my other work, as the rest of the tracks on the cd were in pretty "bad" form of restoration. these guys claimed to be the "hope of the next generation" as far as big band recordings went. in my conversations with em. no one at the comany even knew any of the artists tracks on the cd, and refered to any music pre 2005 as music from the "olden days" and "not very good" they were just after the dollar not any kind of musical merit with thier cd's. <BR/>this was about the time I gave up all hope at getting any kind of employment doing this. so kept on restoring for my own enjoyment. than I thought "I'd Take a year off" as all my emails to record companies and archives basically said (not a chance of employment in this decade. They thought some of my stuff was "outstanding" but said their employment books were "filled up" for the next 2 decades) <BR/><BR/>taking the year off was the best thing I could have done. as after 10 years of slog (90% of that Reserch) I had become quite stale in regard to my work.<BR/>after buying a Tex beneke CD of transcription Disc cuts (yep Im a fan of tex). and hearing the worst restoration yet (no top end, "artafacts" due to too much Noise reduction, De-clicker artifacts, and Cart Scrape on at least 3 tracks) I thought bugger this if this is the best people can do with these tracks i have a go again. <BR/><BR/>Since then Ive pulled out all my 78's <BR/>which I bought mostly at auction years ago mostly worn steel neddel type jobs.<BR/>and I bought a whole load of jazz/swing about 4 years ago in great cond. but mostly UK pressings which are quite "noisy" compared with out AUST ones. <BR/>and a great big lot from ebay. it only cost me 20$ but when i got em most had been fire damaged. one side of the disc until about 5 "grooves" in was "crazed". this was kinda annoying as there are loads of great tracks on em but without the Lead-in groove being sort of Clean they don't scrub up very well. and to be honest there were only Joe Daniels and Will bradley-Ray McKinley stuff in there i diddent have.<BR/><BR/> <BR/>"anyone with a turntable and a computer can do it"<BR/><BR/>oh boy how often I hear that old chestnut. <BR/><BR/>and as you are totally correct in you 1st statement. <BR/>Sometimes when im feeling quite grandiose i call this an art. <BR/>Yes siree just like any skill that requires you to be able to do something the majority can't.<BR/><BR/>Ive not put much up on the blog of late as Im trying to Transfer all my 78's in one go.. I have to move Interstate very soon and can't lug any extra with me. <BR/><BR/>Hey Luis. I could always make up a CD from my tracks and sell it on "your" label you could take what you wanted as a "cut" !!.. It could be like your guest Restorer!<BR/><BR/>crap Ive gone on for bit. (thats about 30 78's done since I started to write this. (I name and cut em, out later just one great wav file with the songs and me trying out diff stylis every now and then) <BR/>shit, i better start "naming" these soon the wav file is 7 hrs long and I have a pile of 78's that goes up to my knees!!<BR/><BR/>Now if that dosent win the longest reply to a blog comment award what will!!!Ade42https://www.blogger.com/profile/12979939181844963877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525497260464049083.post-45495541638803283962008-10-17T11:29:00.000+10:002008-10-17T11:29:00.000+10:00Dude - seriously - fuck those people asking you fo...Dude - seriously - fuck those people asking you for all that crap. <BR/><BR/>I do restoration work as well and it is very time consuming, labor intensive and requires a good ear as well as special skills which you don't pick up in a manual or book.<BR/><BR/>I sell my remasters rather cheaply. Some take 5 or more hours of work, plus more time for artwork reproduction and I give them away for $20 - $40 U.S. dollars. I have people constantly lowball me and some claim that my work isn't worth that much as "anyone with a turntable and a computer can do it".<BR/><BR/>I really do admire your skills as 78's aren't easy to do. I especially admire your fake stereo technique. <BR/><BR/>Keep up the great work. I appreciate it and I am sure many others do as well.<BR/><BR/>Work is hard to come by here in the states as well but I keep my hopes up. If you lived close by - I would definitely start up a company with you.<BR/><BR/>Good luck and don't let those a-holes bring you down.<BR/><BR/>- LuisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com