1971: The PAINSTAKING art of RECORD RESTORATION | Tomorrow's World | BBC Archive
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- Derek Cooper narrates this item on a method of restoring the sound of old records, as demonstrated by John R. T. Davies of The Temperance Seven.
The sound is transferred to tape, where each note can be carefully inspected for minuscule pops and crackles - so brief as to be barely perceptible to the average listener - which can then be marked and physically cut out of the tape. The tape can also be manipulated using special equalisation hardware that controls audio frequencies, to bring it in line with the kind of sound quality listeners expect in the 1970s. In the event that a note cannot be salvaged, the intrepid record restorer has little alternative but to recreate the sound himself using his collection of musical instruments.
It's fair to say that this is a job that requires a good ear, dedication and incredible patience.
This clip is from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast 23 April, 1971.
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This is/was my dear old friend and mentor, John R. T. Davies, at a very early stage of his 'restoration' experiments. He continued to use the remote editing block until he got Cedar (digital restoration), but progressed the cutting of clicks to scraping/etching a tiny portion of oxide to reduce the click into the background noise. I don't think he ever used an acoustic gramophone, but a Goldring turntable, transcription arm and a range of stylus radii. I'm surprised that he allowed The BBC to show a horrible wind-up. He was eventually responsible for many of the finest classic jazz 78 restorations on CD. He was also trombonist/saxophonist/arranger for The Temperance Seven (see many UA-cams). Ron Geesin.
Lovely to hear from you Ron, and it's great to finally be able to put a name to this talented gent. Incidentally, you might be interested in the video we're posting today at 10am. All the best.
I think the gramophone was simply used for recognisability. That's just part of tv.
Nothing is what it seems on television.
Depends what television!@@baronvonlimbourgh1716
@@BBCArchivewow imagine getting a comment from the equally great Ron Geesin!! How wonderful 🎵
You are a national treasure, Mr. Geesin. Thank you for your contributions to music.
This my Dad at work restoring sound where the damage on the record was, never really lost the tempo or a note he played them back in on the splice, yes it's quicker with a computer program but where is the love that went into all the gismo's that were needed to do it analog ?
Great work but imagine spending a month doing this and then a mint pressing turns up?
"Gram-o-phone. Don't think we've got any gram-o-phones here grandad"
The Techmoan/John RT Davies conjuction
This guy was ahead of his time
So if he was doing this in the early 1970s it means the recordings were 60-70 years old at that time. Whereas this archive we're looking back on is now 50 years. And I bet he'd not want to know that the improvements he laboured over could probably be easily made with specialist computer software in a couple seconds.
well, no, not a couple seconds. anyway if he was the one using the software himself i bet he wouldn't mind, there's still a lot of care and a lot of manual labour involved in doing a restoration right.
often, just "running the software" yields only average results. the specialist software in the hands of a skilled worker will get you much better-sounding stuff.
Unfortunately evens todays best software from Izotope and the like cant perform miracles though they do and can help a fair bit.
And now we have Izotope RX, doing days of work in a fraction of a second.
1.10: did this guy just invent scratching 😂
No.
I have a warm and genuine respect for this man! He's doing good work!
was... he is not alive anymore...
I doub't he's doing any good work anymore. Not for the last 35 years at least.
Imagine this guy using a computer now.
All your base are belong to us!
The computer would do it for him. Right click, restore.
Master of his craft.
Amazing artform
Increíble. Muchas gracias por publicar
Right, I’ve got 17 million bits of tape all cut up, how do I put them back together?
1:32 - B*stard?
Could have been worse.
Amazing
An Ophicleide!
Legend
Wow!
Mark n lard classic cuts spring to mind
Is this record hard to find?
@@stepheng8779 in that condition yes
😆
4:00 they dont have the Machine and the Skill that you do
I've missed my calling!
El inventor de Tomorrowland
2:00 doing this is goign to mess with eh rthym and or beat? right?
like its cool he does not have to cut it twice , the One Cut Takes Meteral off, like a Saw brade with wood .. but if you do this 100's of times for 1 Song , that going to mess with the Tempo
They talk about that in the video. It’s such a small fraction that our brains can’t recognize it. Though that is very hard for us musically minded to fathom and accept ;)
If you look closely you can see that he doesn't just stick the ends of the tape together, he leaves a gap the same size as the slice removed. So the timing is completely unaffected by design, not just because of the ear not detecting it.
Special sccisors 🤣
It's got four cutting edges spaced to cut out exactly 1/12 an inch of tape.
@@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703takes out the guesswork!
3:43 Does he have to cross his eyes?