I assume the reference to "Jack" is a reference to Jack Towers. He will tell you he got the oxide scraping technique from discussions with the late John RT Davies. I have worked with some of John's tapes, and I can report his scraping was VERY carefully done. I have also worked with some of Jack's tapes, and I have to say Jack usually took off too much oxide, producing an obvious dropout; I had to fix lots of these, using crossfades, or by careful deletion of part of the audible silence.
From: Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:52:44 -0400
Hi Parker:
I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you were describing. Now I understand. That would absolutely work, but what an art form! Wow, I wonder what Jack experimented on to learn the art.
-- Tom Fine
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on 7/26/07 8:06 PM US/Central, Tom Fine at tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But if you do Jack's method, you're left with the same problem as Terry -- a
microsecond of blank space, which is just as noticeable and annoying as the
click.
By scraping off only the precise moment of the click, you're in effect creating a high speed fadeout and fade-in. It's audible, but less annoying than the click itself.
There's an overview of analog and digital de-clicking at http://www.cedaraudio.com/intro/declick_intro.html - but without a description of manually scraping off the oxide.
-- Parker Dinkins MasterDigital Corporation Audio Restoration + CD Mastering http://masterdigital.com
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