Bumps ticks and scratches

[flamesfever]

Long ago, I believe in the 60's or 70's, there used to be a device you could use to get rid of the various spurious noises on old records that had a fair amount of damage i.e. bumps, ticks and scratches. The talk at the time was that the record companies felt that it was affecting record sales and went around and bought them all up. I, personally never owned such a device and when I tried to find one, they were all gone.

I understand that records are coming back in vogue these days, and being able to use such a device would be quite useful. Most of my old LP's have a fair amount of damage from old parties, kids etc.

Does anyone out there have any knowledge on this subject?

[Bobblehead]

I haven't heard much about realy players in quite a while. I doubt there will be that much demand for something like that because things that "denoise" audio tend to also remove the subtle parts of the music as well which will annoy the audiophiles.

There are actually codec which attempt to add a few of the things you want to remove, because of the nostalgia for the old analogue "album" sound.

[ken0042]

You might want to try a place like Radiocraft on 16th ave. When I worked selling electronics they were the go to place for things like turntables. (back in the late 90's)


(And I opened this thread expecting it to be dedicated to Fotze's mom.)