[Dixielandjazz] need advice--78s,LPs, tapes to CDs

[Stan Brager]

Charlie;

Some of the Jump 78s have made it to LP and a few have also been put on CD.
However, what hasn't been converted to CD, can easily be burned onto CD's.
By easily, I mean that the techniques have been around for many years and
are simple tasks on personal computers. That said, there is still much work
which has to be done with the sound images of the 78's and LP's.

If there are pops, clicks and other extraneous noises, they should be
cleaned up before the music is burned on the CD. This process can be quite
time-consuming in the case of worn media. You want to remove or diminish as
much noise as possible without impairing the music. How much is a matter of
your personal taste and tolerance.

The cost varies depending upon whether you farm the work out or do it
yourself; whether you have good media (78's and lp's); whether you have
friends who can accomplish or train you to convert the media into sound
images and "clean-up" the media as required; and whether you have the
hardware and software to perform all that must be done.

I'm certain that some of us on the DJML would be happy to help you in any
way we can. Some of us already have some of the JUMP LP's and your needs
might give us the reason needed to do the conversion to CD.

Feel free to contact me off-line if there is anyway I could help out.

By the way, if you're looking for a 78 capable turntable, see the Stanton
line of turntables. I recently bought their STR8-80 turntable with a 78
stylus for about $250 (tax and shipping included).

Thanks;

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Suhor" <csuhor at zebra.net>
To: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] need advice--78s,LPs, tapes to CDs


> I can't play my 78 rpm Jump label sides and other 78 collector's items
> because I don't have a 78 rpm  player--nor would I, because the
> surfaces would be further eroded. Can anyone tell me if CDs can easily
> be burned from 78s? from LPs? from tape casettes? (I have some rare LPs
> and tapes I'd like on CD also.) If it's a high-skill operation I'd
> probably have to go outside of Montgomery to Birmingham or New Orleans
> or somewhere else, but it's worth doing, at least until the old stuff
> is reissued.
>
> Charlie Suhor
>
> On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:
>
> > Dear Charlie,
> > Further to your Jump 78s and the Jump LPs:
> > Your J 25 78 by Bob Anderson's Oshkosh Serenaders ("Indiana/Sleepytime
> > Down
> > South" from 6 July 1946) is on my LP J 12-8 'Hollywood in the 40s'.
> > [Joe] Yukl's Wabash Five recording of "Sugar" is also on my LP J 12-8
> > 'Hollywood in the 40s', along with the other 3 titles from this 27 Oct
> > 1945
> > session.
> > The two [Joe] Rushton's California Ramblers 78s  from 15 Dec 1945 and
> > 7 Dec
> > 1947 do not appear to have been reissued on LP, so are rare collectors
> > items.
> > As, indeed, are all your Jump 78s.
> > Floyd O'Brien's State Street Seven 24 Feb 1945 session is on the La
> > Vere's
> > Chicago Loopers Jump LPs I have.
> > Kind regards,
> > Bill.
> >
> >
> >
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