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Re: [ARSCLIST] Cedar
On 20 maj 2007, at 21.57, Graham Newton wrote:
I have the CEDAR Cambridge system which is their flagship system
and use its processes on a daily basis. Unless you are doing noise
reduction processing almost daily and have a lot of experience with
it, there are many very subtle aspects that you will completely
miss. The Cambridge system will do much more than the stand alone
Duo-declickle box, simply due to the processing power available in
Cambridge. I evaluated one of the DUO declickle boxes against the
Cambridge declickle process and found the Cambridge process to be
significantly superior.
One problem I have found is the relative paucity of information about
CEDAR and its products on its own web site. You'd expect a greater
presales presence, examples, demonstrations etc. Unless they've
hidden them from view that is.
The old saying about "you get what you pay for" is true in this
case. The DUO boxes are an order of magnitude better than most
other methods, but if you want the flexibility of carefully
adjusting the process operating parameters to optimize your
results, then you go for Cambridge.
If the primary mission is to restore "78 rpm" recordings would there
be the benefit there? Of course, restoring "other audio" (33/45 rpm
vinyl, tapes etc) should be viewed as a "secondary" benefit.
How easy is the software to use (not a lot to see on the CEDAR site,
hence the bone question)? Can a series of templates be created for
eventual fine tuning ?
Would you be willing to listen to a couple of "before CEDAR DUO"
samples and CEDAR's own processing to see if Cedar Cambridge could do
any better without spending GBP40k on every component? I can put them
online if you would be !
Presumably these samples were processed by CEDAR in the UK, and
this being the case they should be properly done since they have a
studio that does this work on a daily basis.
Yes, but on the DUO system as that was the system being considered.
Rgds, Darren
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