Re: First Looper Reminiscence

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

If you get Spark XL sound editor, it comes with a pretty sweet cleanup VST
plug in.

Mark

roberto wrote:

> ... memory lane ... 1970 or 71, Milan musical instruments fair, with a
> friend, sat at a piano and started looping, four hands and two voices. 
>When
> they dragged us away we went on looping with our voices using as source 
>the
> (rather unkind) sentences the stand attendants were addressing to us...
> In the same years with one of the bands I was playing with we did a lot 
>of
> live acoustic looping (violin, guitars, mandolin, percussions, flute,
> clarinet, oboe, harmonium, ethnic reeds and strings...)
> I still have several cassettes of it, more hiss than sound left on them. 
>I
> wish I could recover some of that stuff. Has anybody had any experience 
>in
> digitising and "cleaning-up" old recordings from tape? Any suggestions
> regarding a good software (Mac) for the purpose?
>
> Roberto
>
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