Re: GG: sound restoration

[Ingvar Loco Nordin <loco.nordin@mbox200.swipnet.se>]

Mary Jo wrote:

>What am I willing to sacrifice in terms of
>the original information to have clearer access to parts of it or to
>information lost due to damage? How will I document what I have done?
>How much time and money do I have?
>
>Most of us would like to zap that hissing and popping (BECAUSE we've
>grown accustomed to digital sound) but what are we willing to give up in
>the process and how will we know what's been edited for us? What would
>we lose if we could edited out GG's humming?
>
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This is really an interesting thread, which I hope will go on a long time.
Really, when it comes to archives and restorations, I think that the
original object should be kept and safe-guarded under the most favourable
conditions, and I also think that a digital copy of the object in it's
original state always should be kept the same way as the original. Like
Mary Jo says, and she really has an important point here, which every
archivist knows or should know;

"tastes change and ideas about what restoration should do change with fashion".

That's exactly it! Keep the original object and a digital copy of it
unchanged. Then make a copy of the digital copy and change that, according
to what science and fashion of the time requiers.

Thanks again for these very interesting postings!

Ingvar Loco Nordin



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