Looking through the notes, it's spectacular that you have all the sources listed. It provides a great reference to all of us who like to collect all the original sources.iPanggo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:26 amHi Masterjedi. Thanks for the suggestion and the critique as wellmasterjedi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:08 am Hey WR team, congrats on this monumental task.
If I may, A suggestion, and a critique:
Instead of disparaging the great effort of those who came before you, you might instead thank those who devoted so much time and expertise on which you built your incredible efforts. Doug Sulpy and Purple Chick deserve much praise in making sense of the mountain of material that has been gifted to us. I'm hopeful that the notes contain your sources, and that you were able to use cliftdean74's rips for the majority of the set.
And now to the critique. In an effort to determine if all of the hubris in this and several other threads is merited, I downloaded your "no wider" January 2 installment. I'm noticing several instances of the volume being boosted significantly, which is your artistic license of course, but immediately preceding (and often following) these volume (and drastic noise) boosts, the audio goes from mono to a bizarre stereo where it repeats itself and the channels are out-of-sync and echoey. Take for example the end of your track 14 of Jan 2. Comparing with the source material, Day By Day Roll 1A, there is a click, and then then a short quieter passage. In yours, that click happens, then repeats again, and then again a third time, and by different amounts in each channel.
I wanna mention that I hope my message doesn't get misunderstood. I'm not disrespecting anyone, I appreciate all of the work done by Purple Chick, Doug Sulpy, and dumbchops as well. Without them, of course, this set wouldn't be reality, they basically cleared the way in a time where there pretty much wasn't any concrete information on these sessions (or the tapes) at all.
About the boosted snippets in stereo:
It's a sort-of mistake.
It often happens in the Nagras (in the beginning and end of each roll), that the first and last second of the audio get recorded in a really quiet way, about 20/25dBs less than the normal audio. As a result, these bits are quite noisy as well.
I isolated those little bits of every Nagra and processed them with ERA5, some EQ and boosted the volume...and I left the stereo wider on the track. I noticed that the wider helped to bring out the actual contents of the audio due to its messing with the mid/side channels. I understand that this might be very annoying to purists who downloaded the no wider version. I should say that I was aware of this, but I didn't think that this would bother people. Of course, now I do. I can say that I'm sorry, if people are complaining, I will make a patch fixing this sort-of mistake. Anyway, thanks for understanding.
Aside from not being able to get the original audio back because of the widening, the bigger problem with that particular section of Jan 2 track 14 is the fact that a short section of the audio is repeated, so the quiet section is delayed in time. I checked a few other instances of the boosting/widening and they are not like that, so maybe you want to take a look at that instance.
Also, just looking at a couple of the multitracks I found these issues:
23.66 dropouts at the end from declicking. Might be best to go back to the original Imp release and use a better declicker, or use the MasterJedi release which has a less destructive declicker (and is more complete, BTW).
24:25 is missing a bit of audio between the cut from Day By Day to the multitrack at 1:16.9
