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| From | mrl@PSFC.MIT.EDU |
| Subject | Re: LP Re-Releases on Sony? Could be-if there is enuff Interest. |
| Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:36:55 -0500 |
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> ya'll 'bout that. Bruce can turn a profit on 1,000 CD's 'cause he's small
> and efficient. Rhino, in the 90's reported they had to sell 10,000 to make a
> profit on a release. Other labels with big promoting budgets and high-priced
> PR execs have to clear 50,000 - 100,000 to turn a profit. (Things that ring
> in hard with the Owsley discussions earlier (Q: does Sony own WB yet??)).
Yet, there are other labels that do specialize in OOP albums also. Like
Collectors' Choice Music, a label which recently reissued the Chartbusters
1st album. Interestingly, I was told that she didn't initiate it herself,
someone else did. For the stuff from 1977-1983 that I'm interested in having
reissued, most are usually obscure LPs that were either DIY, or on very small
labels, few of which I think Sony or any big label would be interested in
reissuing. The only exception might be the Brains LPs, on the strength of the
original version of "Money Changes Everything". Both their LPs were on
Mercury Records, though. I see that the vocalist and writer Tom Gray is still
active, although now doing blues/country music. Anyone ever ask him why the
Brains were never reissued? Another band I would like to see reissued is
Fingerprintz, pre-Silencers. Since the Silencers were fairly well known, why
hasn't the Fingerprintz albums been reissued? Originally on Virgin. I'm not
a fan of their 1st LP, but the other 2 I like.
> the preservation of ... ummm... cool stuff....any way we can. If you have
> similar interests, I'd love to hear from ya, fershur. Me? I'm currently
> working on Fools Face's LP's, and The Kings 2nd and third...
I would think the easiest way to get a good sounding CD version of an LP that
isn't too rare, and for which fairly decent quality LPs exist), would be to
have transfers of multiple copies. Once you get their waveforms matched up,
you would simply start with the cleanest version, and whenever there is a
section with a defect, you click on one of the other copies to find one where
the corresponding section is clean sounding. Obviously, this could be easily
automated, i.e. by having a program which compares each audio sample, and it
wouldn't require a complex algorithm.
What's the best software at a reasonable price, that can repair defects? On
my mac, I'm using cheap shareware software (Amadeus) that can do a fairly well
job of finding loud clicks. The small ones are the ones that it has trouble
with. However, I devised a simple solution, I cut and paste the section which
has the defect into another window, and I slow the music down by 1/5. I can
then usually hear and easily discover where the click is. This technique is
especially useful when the defect isn't a pure spike.
Mark
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