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The Old-disc Jockey Restored features 21 tracks especially
chosen by host, producer and music restoration expert, John
Worthington. These songs are not "the music chart hits",
but the real music of real musicians. Each of the tracks on this
collection has been lovingly restored to its original, pristine
condition, for your listening enjoyment.
Price: $20 each + $3 shipping and handling
Order
online now or call 1-800-494-2582
 Frankly,
this CD was not what I had in mind when I first began restoring
the sound on the old records.
-John Worthington
I’ve been “The Old-disc Jockey” since 1974 and, of course, sound
restoration by computer was not available then. What was available
was tape recording, along with a myriad of sound filters which invariably
took out some of the music along with the noises the old records
had acquired. Clicks could only be removed by clipping them out
of the tape and joining the ends, or scraping off small amounts
of the magnetic material on the back of the tape. And large flaws
required TWO tapes, so you could get a piece of tape with sound
recorded next to the flaw and insert it in place of the flaw removed
from the first tape. The whole process was a recipe for madness,
and it seemed to take forever, but I wanted to be able to present
the music in something resembling the sound we all remember.
The first time I saw sound represented on a computer screen as
a picture of the sound waves, completely still and completely alterable,
I fell in love with the process. I’m still fascinated by it and
the restoration software now available, and I’m still learning new
tricks to improve the result. It wasn’t long before every program
I did contained at least one selection made much more listenable
by running it through the computer, and I began to think one or
two usages of those selections was not enough to warrant the amount
of time I was spending. The first time another announcer-producer
asked me for the use of one, the idea dawned – put them on a CD
and file them in CKUA’s extensive library. By the time there were
a dozen discs there, this CD was inevitable!
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