Date:         Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:24:33 -0700
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I would be glad to offer assistance contact me off
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--- Graham Newton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Center for Documentary Studies
> Duke University
> 1317 W. Pettigrew St.
> Durham, N.C. 27705
> (919) 660-3608
> (919) 681-7600 fax
> sam stephenson wrote:
>
> > We have a collection of 1600 7" open reel tapes.
> 418 of the reels, we now
> > know, contain about 1000 hours of jazz music and
> spoken word dialogues made
> > in a NYC loft building 1957 to 1964.
> <snip>
> > But the spoken word dialogues need cleaning up now
> so we can better make
> > out voices and transcribe what's being said, which
> helps us identify
> > content.
> <snip>
> > None of us are engineers or technicians and we
> won't be doing any real
> > restoration work until all content is identified.
> Hearing spoken words
> > more clearly would be very helpful.  We need
> something that is
> > user-friendly and relatively affordable and that
> does not require a steep
> > learning curve.
>
> For non-technical people, you probably want
> something with a graphical user
> interface, the useage of which is deadly obvious to
> all but the most
> technologically challenged!
>
> If you are prepared to purchase a computer and
> software to perform this task,
> you probably have enough in the budget to afford
> something like a Weiss or
> Yamaha YDP-2600 stand alone equalizer box... plug
> your muffled audio in, and
> after some judicious tweaking of the controls, the
> results of which are
> clearly displayed on a display screen integral to
> the equipment, get the
> modified audio out to listen to or record on your
> existing equipment.
>
> The Yamaha box is relatively cheap and probably
> quite well suited to your
> needs, go here to look at it:
>
>
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,6373,CNTID%253D86%2526CTID%253D229000%2526VNM%253DLIVE%2526AFLG%253DY%2526LGFL%253DN,00.html
>
> (This is a huge link and if it is broken, paste it
> together in your
>   browser and it should take you to the correct
> page, otherwise
>   go to http://www.yamaha.com/ and search for
> YDP-2600 in the professional
>   audio category)
>
>
> The Weiss box (go here to see  it: )
>
> http://www.weiss.ch/eq1/index.html
>
> is considerably more expensive, but provides more
> flexibility and much
> higher resolution which really is only needed if you
> are doing original
> recordings to current day studio standards.
>
>
>
> ... Graham Newton
>
> --
> Audio Restoration by Graham Newton,
> http://www.audio-restoration.com
> World class professional services applied to tape or
> phonograph records for
> consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR's new
> CAMBRIDGE processes.


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