Peter! I'd be glad to help her out. As long as there aren't 100 discs to restore and catalog, I wouldn't even have to charge her for more than some cd-r's. I regularly do audio restoration for Curb Records here in Nashville, mainly white label dj copies of extremely rare and obscure movies soundtracks and go-go compilations from Mike Curb's personal collection (not really worth much to collectors, but they mean the world to Mike, especially since he did the music to a lot of the films). I have a specially modified Nitty Gritty 1.5FI for cleaning (even the soundpage-like Ediphone discs), and transcriptions are done with a Music Hall MMF-9 (also highly modified with Cardas Incognito tonearm wiring for starters), using a Shure V15VxMR cartridge (the line-contact stylus is small enough to accurately read even Edison 80rpm long-plays with great clarity) into a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista phono pre-amp. Through Nordost Red Dawn interconnects, the signal goes into Apogee a/d convertors to be loaded into my ProTools rig, where I do restorations with a number of plug-ins by Waves and other companies. Then I burn them to cd-r and that's that!
I would never use this forum to solicit my services officially, but if anyone's wondering, I charge Mike $20 a song or $200 a single album, and I do have stylii and a turntable for 78rpm restoration as well. I can't play back cylinder recordings, however. Just for the record. Best Regards, Robert Wright ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [Phono-L] help needed: red "diamond disc" player sought > Gang - > > A lady emailed me today looking for help to get sound off of some old > floppy red plastic mid-century Ediphone discs...which as you may know, > they called Diamond Discs. > > They have her dead husband's voice on them, and she wants recordings > made for her kids. > > Any help? > > -- > -- Peter > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.oldcrank.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com >
