In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:

Real fun was transferring a badly scratched record to tape and cutting
out the clicks with a razor blade. ;-)

A couple of years ago I bought a number of second-hand LPs from a pop-up
shop which was in town for about six months. Typically 3 quid per LP, and
the Jazz examples proved to be in better condition than the pop or
classical ones. So I mostly bought jazz. I'm still working occasionally on
transferring and declicking them.

One was a double LP of Roy Eldridge. This has a number of noticable, very
brief. fade-out-and-in events. My impression is that someone removed clicks
by some method that simply magnetically 'wiped' very short sections of a
tape they'd made from the 78s.

Did anyone ever do anything like that? Or would it be that they'd cut and
spliced out the clicks with a noticable lack of overlap?

IIRC The LPs were from the 1970s.

FWIW I've recently been transferring and de-clicking some Ellington 'Radio
Transcriptions' discs released on Decca London in the late 1970s. These are
remarkably good compared with what you'd expect from commercial 78s from
the time (1946-7). Sadly, the shop only had volumes 1-4 so I didn't get
volume 5. But not bad for 3 quid a pop. :-)

Jim

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