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  1. Grinning Ghost

    The Singing Harp Has Returned to Happy Valley (Long)

    Well, to start with, I use a five-year-old iMac - in stylish Blueberry. I don't do Windows. For restoration, I use a program called Spark XL (in Mac OS X), with lots of plug-ins, including one called "SoundSoap". For mixing, I use a very old but very easy and simple program called SoundEdit...
  2. Grinning Ghost

    The Singing Harp Has Returned to Happy Valley (Long)

    >>Why do you have difficulty believing that?Audio engineering background, in my case. Either you're a remastering genius, or we have different opinions on what constitutes "better sound." For instance:< >>I was going to sync-up the stereo versions of the music to the Lp itself, bringing up...
  3. Grinning Ghost

    The Singing Harp Has Returned to Happy Valley (Long)

    Yes, I could reassemble the Small World Lp in just a day. It's incredibly easy to do. Just paste each track in, match the fades on the Lp, pop in the narration and it's done! I already have some of the original recording sessions, and have remastered those and made exact re-creations. No...
  4. Grinning Ghost

    The Singing Harp Has Returned to Happy Valley (Long)

    Re:A Few Answers Well, what I've heard so far *is* a half-baked restoration. You make the restoration/noise reduction process sound extremely difficult, which it really is not with today's software. It's actually quite easy to do, particularly if you have access to the original source...
  5. Grinning Ghost

    The Singing Harp Has Returned to Happy Valley (Long)

    Re:A Few Answers I've had the opportunity to listen to three of these "restored" Lps, and they are not all completely restored - well not as good as they have the potential to be. Small World is literally just the Lp master tape, still in mono, which sounds like it's worn out now. Lots of...
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