[Dixielandjazz] new technologies

[Cees van den Heuvel]

I can always digitize the recordings, clean them and
rerecord them on my wax rolls and wire recorder.
Reauthentizing jazz, I will call the proces. In short:Reaudio, patent 
pending.

cEes, owning a MYpod.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <heu at bart.nl>; <mjl at ix.netcom.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] new technologies


> Hi Cees and all,
>
> You wrote (regarding iPods):
>
>>So it's now time to put my old wire and wax roll recordings on my Ipod?
>
> The short answer is "yes."
>
> A longer reply would be "perhaps it has already been done. I mean this in
> the sense that many of those old wire recordings and wax cylinders etc. 
> may
> have already been converted to digital data and made available as mp3 
> files
> which may be stored in your iPod."
>
> Another aspect of this is that converting them to digital files will help
> preserve the wire recordings and especially the cylinders themselves which
> deteriorate with age and usage. They still have historic value even though
> the sounds they produce may be of inferior quality compared to today's 
> music
> players.
>
> That brings up an interesting point. The wax rolls won't get better and
> there is nothing you can do to them which will improve the sound quality.
> However . . . when the information has been converted into digital form 
> one
> can use sound editors to enhance the tone quality considerably. For 
> instance
> when old 78's are digitized one can eliminate many of the scratches, 
> clicks,
> hissings etc. and other distractions you hear when playing the record. 
> Some
> amazing things can be done with this technology.
>
> But, the answer to your question ("So it's now time to put my old wire and
> wax roll recordings on my Ipod?") is simply "Yes."
>
> By the way, the word is spelled "iPod" with the second letter being upper
> case. I think it stands for something like "information pod." It's one of
> those cutesy affectations you see a lot of these days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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