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BTW that Fanfare article is available online until the end of this month:

http://www.fanfaremag.com/content/view/22236/10204/

I'm afraid that, given the recording dates from 1902, there's not a huge range of dynamic or frequency content in this particular item!

Hi Guys I've just spent the afternoon putting together various clips and excerpts for a talk I'm giving in the UK in a couple of weeks time, where I'm going to have to try and put across the gist of how Har-Bal works to an audience of perhaps 150 classical music buffs, without any visual aids. Suffi...

For around a year now i've been using Har-Bal in a very unusual and pretty much classical music-specific way to fix the very wayward EQ usually heard on historic recordings fifty years old or greater, a technique marketed as using "Pristine Audio XR" remastering. I've been refining the tec...

Probably not high on most people's list of possible requirements, but the ability to fine-tune the reference would come in very useful here - it doesn't need to be implemented in audio, merely the ability to very gently shift the frequency curve of a reference up or down a fraction would be very wel...

Jyri T. wrote:Also, the zoom in and out could be more straight forward. Just plain "zoom in" and "zoom out" buttons would do.

...but only as an alternative to the current system, which is perfect for me!

Thanks for the plug Andrew. Hope your re-masterings do well! One of these days I'm sure to order one of those but I'm so split for time I've haven't bought a new CD in more than 6 months and even them I'm struggling to find the time to listen to them. Paavo. I know how you feel, Paavo - I'm surroun...

The initial response to these has been quite remarkable: "You're going to make me break my promise to myself (to not buy any more Toscanini discs). Those two are stunning, especially the 7th, which I found very involving (I forgot I was listening to an ancient recording)." "I have bee...

You might be interested to see this, which includes four complete movements from four different vintage recordings remastered using Har-Bal to redefine the EQ:

http://www.pristineclassical.com/More/NaturalSound.html

FYI, I posted this to our own forum last night: If you've heard the Toscanini Beethoven 4th we released just before Christmas you'll know I've been working on the tonal quality of these recordings using a program called Har-Bal. Although this is just one part of the overall restoration procedure, it...

It is possible to open Har-Bal in such a way that the Ref button is pressed down but the reference file is not loaded (I'm not sure how but it's happened to me on a couple of occasions - perhaps it was deleted?). Without thinking about this (or noticing at first) I've hit the spacebar to start playb...

Paavo wrote:I can't be firm on the time frame...

To tell you the truth, I've got a cardboard box full of 78 shelacs that I bought around three years ago at a garage sale for about $20 Australian. It is waiting for the time when I'll have time to re-master them to CD. Still waiting for the time though. I'd be really interested to hear whether HarB...

Just butting in here with only a very slightly off-original-topic point for my first posting here (I've been using Har-Bal for a few months now). At this very moment the HarBal 1.5 beta is beavering away on some recordings I've recently restored for which I see no reason to go above 44.1k. I hope yo...