Yes but the point is that is very likely a 2.5 or 2.7 mil radius.
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> --- On Fri, 7/3/09,
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> From:
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> Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] a new question...
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> Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 4:13 PM
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> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
> leonard schwartz <
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> > yea thats what i thought....they are pretty worn and nothing will "save" them...thanks..
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> The stylus you are playing them with now may well make a
> difference. Some "utilitarian" 78 rpm stylus that you might
> get off the shelf these days may still be much narrower than
> the sylus radii envisaged when the 78s were made.
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> Gale
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> > --- On Fri, 7/3/09, James P. Girard <
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> > From: James P. Girard <
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> > Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] a new question...
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> > Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 10:35 AM
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> > At 09:00 PM 7/2/2009, you wrote:
> > >im editing some 78s and theres some very definate surfice noise on
> > >the 78.whatelse can i
> > >use to clean up this 78 besides the noise removal option?thanks..
> > >
> > >lenny
> >
> > Have you tried soap and water? (Apart from breaking if you drop them,
> > 78s are actually pretty rugged.) Compressed air can also knock some
> > stuff out of the grooves, and electronic wipes can sometimes be
> > effective. All that, of course, is assuming that the surface noise
> > comes from foreign matter. If it comes from surface damage, you
> > pretty much have to do it electronically, which is never going to
> > eliminate all the noise, even if you have a real production studio
> > and several copies of the record, so that you can patch together the
> > best parts of each. My 78s are the first records I listened to, as a
> > child (mostly WWII songs that belonged to my mother), and the
> > physical cleaning plus Audacity makes them sound better than they did
> > 60 years ago, which is more than enough for me. If your records are
> > more pristine than mine, or you're more ambitious about getting rid
> > of noise, there may be others on here who can recommend software that
> > goes beyond Audacity's capabilities. Audacity will diminish the pops
> > and clicks, and can remove a great deal of the constant surface
> > noise, which is not really caused by damage or dirt, but is just an
> > effect of the medium, like tape hiss. But in the end, 78s are 78s,
> > produced for an era when songs played on a record player with one
> > low-quality speaker and a stylus as big as a fine-point fountain pen
> > sounded pretty good to most people. (In fact, on those old players
> > you could substitute just about any metal pointed object, like a
> > small nail, for the stylus without any noticeable loss of sound
> > quality.) You can improve the sound of these records a great deal,
> > even with Audacity, but if they have surface damage you're never
> > going to make them sound like a well-kept LP or 45.
> >
> > JimG
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