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Artifacts: Residual effects left over after the de-clicking process in the form of "ghost pops" or "hollow pops."

Broadband Noise: Tape hiss, 60 Hz hum, and leftover noise from the restoration process.

Dynamic Range Expansion/Impact Restoration: Hardware that creates a fuller and superior sound to your music. Not recomended for spoken word recordings.

6-De’s (in the order of when each process is done)

1. De-scratch: very long scratches on vinyl which result in super loud clicks. Usually longer in time duration ( 7 thousandths of a second  or more).

2. De-click*: loud clicks, which are a result, from light scratches on the vinyl. Shorter in duration (less than 7 thousandths of a second).

3. De-crackle: small, barely measurable hair-line clicks, the sound you commonly hear when you place the needle on the record at the beginning. It is usually .throughout the song.

4. De-noise: broadband noise/tape hiss.

5. De-hum: ground loop. Background humming sound found on old vinyl, usually from original engineering problems.

6. Manual Declick And Artifact Removal: This will repair clicks, artifacts and inherent vinyl flaws the automatic software could not remove. This entails monitoring your music file and stopping at every artifact and anomaly along the way to repair it using the Algorithmix reNOVAtor. If the reNOVAtor could not repair it, then it will be manually cut out, but only if it does not harm the music. If cutting changes the music in any way, shape, or form, they will be left in.

7. De-ess: the process of removing a sound called a vocal sibilant. This can be described as the sound produced by ripping a sheet of paper. It is commonly produced when a vocalist sings S's and T's. De-essing brings such sounds down to a more listenable level.

* Some of this process is done manually on down to the sample level by LP2CD Solutions, Ltd. for a nominal charge of $20.00 per hr. Normal studio rate for this elsewhere would be $100.00 per hr. or more. This ensures superior quality from us, unlike our competitors that use 1 automatic de-clicking process exclusively, which fails to eliminate all of the flaws and actually takes away alot of the music from the use of inferior restoration software, applied in brutally heavy settings, and making multiple passes over your songs. This causes the sound to be of inferior quality.

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