SERVICES
(AUDIO RESTORATION / COVERS)
From our trading experience we know that most of
the traded bootlegs have copying related problems, that are not to be
encountered on the masters such as: gaps, clicks, pops and all sort of unusual
noises. The most common errors are the gaps and clicks/pops between tracks.
More than 90% of the traded bootlegs have for sure this sort of problems that
are caused by a lot of different things.
We are providing audio restoration services for this sort of errors, that you probably come across all the time, including:
1. the removal of any gaps/pauses that appear between tracks,
from the shortest ones (like a 1/10 of a second which is not perceptible, but
can be easily detected at a WAV analysis) up to the most obvious ones (such as
2 second gaps created by Track at Once mode recording - TAO).
2. the removal of any sort of noise between tracks
such as clicks, pops etc.
The
final cd will not suffer any loss in the overall quality of the recording. The quality
of the recording stays exactly the same and in the end will be error-free
between tracks.
3. apart from this we create unique high quality colour covers for each cd, audio-tape or
video-tape.
All this applies to cds
that you send us, to all cds from our collection and to all the cds that you
are looking for and we may get at your request (click
here for further details).
Briefly, the whole
procedure goes as it follows:
- we listen the cd to check it for errors. This step
requires, on average, from 20 to 80 minutes.
- we extract audio onto the hard drive using Exact Audio
Copy software - secure mode (in order to make sure that the disc has no errors
and that none will appear during extraction). This step requires, on average,
from 40 to 60 minutes.
- we perform the WAV analysis on the entire bootleg, in
order to find out the errors, even if they can not be heard during a regular
listening of the disc. This step requires, on average, from 30 to 60 minutes.
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then comes the actual removal of the errors. This will be done for each and
every single error existing between the tracks and will be operated manually
and not using an error removing software that never offers the best results.
This stage requires, on average, from 60 to 240 minutes for each cd.
- moreover we copy the
error-free tracks onto a high quality CDR at a low speed so that it doesn’t get
new errors. This step requires, on average, from 20 to 70 minutes.
- finally we create unique colour covers for cds,
audio-tapes or video-tapes using high fidelity laser printers. This step
requires, on average, about 30 minutes for each cd cover and about 70 minutes
for each tape cover.
The actual
work for every cd takes about from 3 hours to even 7-8 hours and at least 1/3
of it implies that we ourselfs are working with the computer. We thought that
$3-$4 or E3-E4 would be appropriate for our work and time, $2-$3 or E2-E3 for
the costs of the final cd (blank cdr, covers etc.). The total cost rises to $6
or E6 for each cd (for at least 5 cds).
Ocassionally we
may also remove gaps and clicks on tracks, but this procedure requires a
tremendous amount of work and will be done only for our own cds and for special
orders. We are no longer remastering cds, since this is a matter of taste. We
like to preserve the original quality of the recording as it is, except for the
case when the recording is really important to us.
This section of the site was created in order
to help traders that encounter technical problems in their cd collections. The
sole porpose of this endeavour is to help the traders and not to make a profit.
We are generally very busy people (we are common people with regular jobs) and
we provide these services on a limited basis, according to our schedule. We are
not making a living out of it!!!
ORDERS AND INFO: faithincure@hotmail.com