Hi Guy's

Just been given the task of transferring some 1930's shellac recordings ,
date on the records are 3/4/37 , firstly which is the best deck to use , on
the records they have " Use only Trailing Needles " , I under stand that
modern 78 decks have a universal stylus !! Next these have been recorded off
the radio so there is a lot of radio interference , been using cool edit ,
sound forge , DC , but not found the right filter, HELP.


regards

Brian

In article , Toby Green
wrote:
Hi Guy's

Just been given the task of transferring some 1930's shellac recordings
, date on the records are 3/4/37 , firstly which is the best deck to use
, on the records they have " Use only Trailing Needles " , I under stand
that modern 78 decks have a universal stylus !!

You may need a deck that has variable speed as early recordings were not
all at 78rpm. You may also have to adjust the replay frequency response as
this was also far from standardised. I have an old Goldring-Lenco that I
can use for things like this as its speed has a wide range of adjustment.
When no speed is marked or know, just use your sense of pitch and timing to
guess. :-)

There was also a lack of standardisation for the cutter size. I don't know
the situation nowdays, but years ago some of the cartridge companies like
Shure, etc, used to make various special stylii for replay of old
recordings.

Next these have been recorded off the radio so there is a lot of radio
interference , been using cool edit , sound forge , DC , but not found
the right filter, HELP.

What is the nature of the interference? Whilstles? Broadband Noise? what?

Slainte,

Jim

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Toby Green wrote:

Hi Guy's

Just been given the task of transferring some 1930's shellac recordings ,
date on the records are 3/4/37 , firstly which is the best deck to use , on
the records they have " Use only Trailing Needles " , I under stand that
modern 78 decks have a universal stylus !! Next these have been recorded off
the radio so there is a lot of radio interference , been using cool edit ,
sound forge , DC , but not found the right filter, HELP.

regards

Brian

These sound like one-off's which are much more fragile than standard
78's. People experienced in transcribing 78's will often have a variety
of different sized styli available and choose which one to use based on
the make of record (or sometimes which sounds best). While a standard 78
stylus will work, you'll get better results if you choose the correct
size - it will make cleaning the recordings up much easier.

You might want to do a Google Groups search for some of Scott Dorsey's
postings on the subject on rec.audio.pro.

Cheers.

James.