Comment by freedomben
16 days ago
Indeed, I have a future project/goal of "restoring" Have Gun - Will Travel radio episodes to listenable quality using tech like this. There are so many lines where sound effects and tape rot and other "bad recording" things make it very difficult to understand what was sad. Will be amazing, but as with all tech the potential for abuse is very real
hey if you want to collab or trade notes, my email is in my profile. there was java software that did FANTASTIC work cleaning up crappy transfers of audio, like, specifically, it was perfect for "AM Quality Monaural Audio".
i say "was [...] software" because the last 2 times i've tried to use it, it did imperceptible cleanup, making it worthless. Anyhow, all my radio plays are from OTRR, i think.
Audio.Restoration.DeNoise.DeNoiseLF.2.8.3_WiN.OSX is a more recent version i think
p.s. are you a "dude named Ben"?
Neat! That's really cool. I'll definitely reach out once I'm ready to move forward on it. Got a few high-priority things sucking up all my free time at the moment :-(
Yeah all my radio plays are from OTRR now. I bought a number of different "collections" from different sources but none of them come even close to the quality and care that the OTRR people have.
Also, always a pleasure to meet someone else who loves old-time radio :-D
What are some of your favorites? Probably my favorite is Abbott & Costello, followed by Have Gun - Will Travel and Gunsmoke. I like the Lone Ranger too but am only a few hours into it so far.
p.s. I am indeed a dude named Ben!
As far as old time radio: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Richard Diamond (and Rogue's Gallery, same star and crew), and Philip Marlow. I try to get back in to the ones i listened to as a kid 40 odd years ago like Dragnet and Broadway is My Beat, but there's something too slow about them for me now. I like Suspense, as well. I'd have to go digging for some other shows i've enjoyed, as the YT,JD set is hundreds and hundreds of episodes long and keeps me entertained on long car trips...
I also have some newer things, i'm trying to fill my "Coast-to-Coast AM" collection, i've started on Phil Hendrie, and i have most of a show called "Love Line" hosted by Dr Drew Pinsky (and others, usually Adam Carolla). That one i asked permission to clone an archive i found on accident, and the archive owner/host was glad i was doing it. Those are all transcribed, now.
Each is kind of a snapshot of the time they existed, and i don't necessarily want to listen to them all (i don't like Art Bell that much, or talk radio in general!)
And if the reference to "Dude Named Ben" is correct, ITM, and i hope to hear from you when we both have time to fix these old shows!