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dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 4:09 pm Post subject:

johnconlon wrote:

Sell them on ebay, you will be surprised how much you get for old records

Put them onto mp3 recordings before physical disposal.
You can 'clean up' the sound quality digitally....

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 5:44 pm Post subject:
All good ideas except ebay! Nobody seems to want them on there Anyway OH was quite taken as well phew! So anyone for Madame Butterfly? Bit of Humph? Or what about Hear My Prayer or Petula Clark Maybe some Terry Denes Teenage Dream ( ) An irresistable collection isn't it.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 6:55 pm Post subject:
I have 100's LPs which I am thinking of hiding. Mostly they get played at parties by peoples whose eye light up on seeing them, when they have had one too many I hate the way they end up getting mistreated.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 9:21 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

I have 100's LPs which I am thinking of hiding. Mostly they get played at parties by peoples whose eye light up on seeing them, when they have had one too many

I hate the way they end up getting mistreated.

Digitise 'em!

Record as a CD quality 44khz digitisation. (AIFF or WAVE)
Clean it up with Clickrepair (see below) to remove clicks and crackle (but not rumble and hiss).
Cut it into "tracks".
Burn as an audio cd. And/or zip it for archiving. And/or make smaller mp3's for the iPod or whatever. Oh, and listen to it without clicks...

Clickrepair is a program recently offered for shareware distribution ($25) by an Aussie maths prof. It tries to interpolate (fill in) the music behind each and every individual click. It doesn't filter the rest of the sound.
Music people have been raving about it. (Personally, I'm tone dumb...)
Its a Java program, and works for Mac and Windows, (not for Linux yet)
More here https://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 10:21 pm Post subject:
Oh heavens you lot are terribly technical - I am more of the melted around flowerpot school However I am tempted to try this so thank you - Interesting (read popular) bits of opera all cleaned up to listen to

tawny owl

Joined: 29 Apr 2005
Posts: 563
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 10:33 pm Post subject:

ruby wrote:

All good ideas except ebay! Nobody seems to want them on there

Anyway OH was quite taken as well phew! So anyone for Madame Butterfly? Bit of Humph? Or what about Hear My Prayer or Petula Clark Maybe some Terry Denes Teenage Dream (

) An irresistable collection isn't it.

That's a shame. I wonder if there are any specialised auctions you could take them to? As you've got some classical ones, there is this site: www.classical-lps.co.uk/selling.htm

Failing that, you could buy a 'custom quality steel-built frame' for them:
www.albumframes.com

2blackcat

Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 42

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 05 7:53 am Post subject:
I've got one of those wind-up gramaphones It needs a little tlc (which I've promised it for years) The hardest part was finding the needles

jema
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 05 8:22 am Post subject:

dougal wrote:

jema wrote:

I have 100's LPs which I am thinking of hiding. Mostly they get played at parties by peoples whose eye light up on seeing them, when they have had one too many

I hate the way they end up getting mistreated.

Digitise 'em!

I rarely play them, and when I do I like the romance of the old LPs. Equally the plonker who wreck them, are attracted to the concept of old LPs. Digitise them and they would never be heard.

culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 638
Location: Kent

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 05 8:41 am Post subject:
spray them gold,make your own labels with the printer and frame them as a gold disc awards for christmas presents..

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 05 1:06 pm Post subject:
before you turn them into plant pots (a heinous offence in my opinion) what have you got besides the desert song? i can't take any from you as i have no record player but i am really intruiged

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 05 8:37 pm Post subject:

Daughters would love gold awards!

Sorry Nanny been away for the weekend - we have The Marriage of Figaro - played by the Royal Artillery Band, Madame Butterfly bu the New Light Symphony Orchestra, Jazz at the Royal festival hall - Huphrey Littleton and his band, Largo - Lotte Lehman, Put a light in the window - Gary Miller, Close your Eyes - Humph again, Hear my prayer - Choir of the Temple Church, The Blue Danube - vienna Philharmonic, Two Songs without words - Henry Wood conducting, Bobby Shafto, Chris Barbers jazz band, Baby Lover - Petula Clark -

Thats about half of them - all oddly evocative aren't they?

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 1:33 pm Post subject:
ruby - what a great find ! get yer turntable out (or get one secondhand). I kept my parents' LPs : The Dancing Years; The King and I.... They transcend any concept of naff. jema - can you store your vinyl not in the party rooms, and make compilation tapes off the records for the party beforehand ? good fun, that. Last edited by gil on Fri Nov 04, 05 9:22 am; edited 1 time in total

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 1:39 pm Post subject:
i agree what a haul you cant' get rid of them surely henry wood conducting? bobbie shaftoe? god, he's been dead years, that might be one of the ones they use at the last night of the proms, i've certainly heard it played at sometime on the last night all those are classics

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 05 8:24 am Post subject:
No I am not going to turn them into plant pots! But I won't keep them all - we will have a big playing session this weekend and pick out what we want to keep - the rest will go to a charity shop to give them a fighting chance If anyone wants any in particular let me know - if it doesn't make our play list I could see about getting it to you.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 05 10:00 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Clickrepair is a program recently offered for shareware distribution ($25) by an Aussie maths prof. It tries to interpolate (fill in) the music behind each and every individual click. It doesn't filter the rest of the sound.
Music people have been raving about it. (Personally, I'm tone dumb...)
Its a Java program, and works for Mac and Windows, (not for Linux yet)
More here https://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/

After removing the clicks and pops, another program can get a clear run at removing the residual surface noise and hiss.
I've just been reading an audiophile's report on a Mac shareware program called Amadeus that seemingly does the job exceptionally well (and even better after ClickRepair has removed the clicks). Its $30, but you can use it for free on 15 different days.
https://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html

So $55 and you can remaster your old vinyl to maybe better than new...

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