Audio Restoration
This is a precise art and a huge passion of mine for decades.
Any friends with a special recording, I’m happy to see if I can restore for you without you having to go to a commercial provider.
Countless of salvageable recordings from analogue sources have been destroyed by heavy handed audio manipulation or by use of cheap USB turntables or cassette transfer decks which look to improve and digitally transfer recordings, whilst destroying the soul of the original data available from those recordings.
I use hardware and software to forensically reduce hiss, clicks, rumble, hum etc prior to sound enhancement. We listen to every click, not make a broad pass over a recording and assume all will be the same. This often used crude method removes the soul from recordings that often can’t be replaced sympathetically.
This is a time intensive method but is required to produce the highest results.
Software includes Sonnox, FabFilter. iZotope, Acon, Waves and Cedar. All excellent in their own right but each has it’s own areas of real excellence, when used correctly.
If a source is too far gone to produce say CD standard recording, some significant improvement on the source will be available regardless.
Following restoration I can output to any digital format, including up to 192kb, which is 4 times the definition of a CD. Given the original source generally would mean a lower resolution would be more appropriate, I can output to MP3, Wav etc for download and distribution, or for you to make small run CDs or even cassettes if preferred.
Output Formats
I can improve recordings from almost any original sound source and where I don't have equipment similar to that the original was recorded on (Victorian wax cylinders etc) I can help you source them. Home recorded and old promotional cassettes, open reels, poor quality vinyl, ex VHS recordings, video camera etc all possible.
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