Larry

It's a shame the original transfers weren't a little better - do you have access
to these at all? Working from MP3's makes life a litter harder, as so much
detail has been lost through compression, but worse than that, when these were
digitised they were filtered to cut out everything above 11kHz, so they have
half the frequency range of a CD.

Anyway, technical shortcomings aside of these files, there are two main problems
here - the inadequacies of the microphone and the distortion overload of the
recording. Whilst the latter is pretty much engrained now in the recording, the
former can be improved upon and hopefully the resulting recordings are both
easier on the ear and clearer to understand.

You'll still hear a load of background - at some point this has been attacked by
an 'auto level control' running flat out as a hard compressor - it's brought up
all the background noise to a similar level as the guitar and vocal. A bit like
baking a cake - once something's firmly mixed in like this it can't be taken out
again!

I've done what I can with EQ and noise reduction, and I think it's quite a bit
better now, but you can't expect any real quality out of a recording like this!
You'll find the "cleaned up" recordings online as 224kbps MP3s in the files
section.

Best regards

Andrew


--- In skeeter@yahoogroups.com, "Larry" <larryonline@...> wrote:
>
> In the spirit of "nothing ventured nothing gained" I've posted four short
songs by Faron Young that are home recordings from around 1956. Since
Pristineaudio has shown a great talent for cleaning up recordings perhaps he'd
be willing to take a look at these and see if he can make Faron's singing
clearer. The last song (all start with Don't Know) may be something Faron was
making up at the time, but the two middle ones sound like real songs to me. The
hope is that if we can hear what he is singing more clearly we may be able to
identify the songs. I don't know anyone else with the necessary skills that
might tackle this for me. Thanks for the consideration. I apologize for the off
topic nature of this post.
>
> Larry Davis
>