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The Old-disc Jockey Restored features 21 tracks especially
chosen by host, producer and music restoration expert, John
Worthington. These songs are not "the music chart hits", but the real
music of real musicians. Each of the tracks on this collection has been lovingly
restored to its original, pristine condition, for your listening enjoyment. Price:
$20 each + $3 shipping and handling Please Note: This is the FIRST volume
of the Old-disc Jockey Restored series. Read about Volume
Two here. Special offer: Purchase both Volumes One and Two for
only $30 per set!
Order
online now or call 1-800-494-2582
* Available for purchase by Canadian residents
only
Frankly, this CD was not what I had in mind when I first began restoring the sound
on the old records.
-John Worthington
I’ve been “The Old-disc Jockey”
since 1974 and, of course, sound restoration by computer was not available then.
What was available was tape recording, along with a myriad of sound filters which
invariably took out some of the music along with the noises the old records had
acquired. Clicks could only be removed by clipping them out of the tape and joining
the ends, or scraping off small amounts of the magnetic material on the back of
the tape. And large flaws required TWO tapes, so you could get a piece of tape
with sound recorded next to the flaw and insert it in place of the flaw removed
from the first tape. The whole process was a recipe for madness, and it seemed
to take forever, but I wanted to be able to present the music in something resembling
the sound we all remember.
The
first time I saw sound represented on a computer screen as a picture of the sound
waves, completely still and completely alterable, I fell in love with the process.
I’m still fascinated by it and the restoration software now available, and I’m
still learning new tricks to improve the result. It wasn’t long before every program
I did contained at least one selection made much more listenable by running it
through the computer, and I began to think one or two usages of those selections
was not enough to warrant the amount of time I was spending. The first time another
announcer-producer asked me for the use of one, the idea dawned – put them on
a CD and file them in CKUA’s extensive library. By the time there were a dozen
discs there, this CD was inevitable!
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