I've toned down my original ambition to convert most of my LPs to CD and just have been working on those that will NEVER be commercially available. "Swingle II: Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys" is one of them, and thanks to eBay and a factory-sealed record, "Traditional Welsh Songs by Meredydd Evans" is another.
The problem is the noise...I have to go down to the subatomic waveform level with my pencil tool to take out the most egregious pops, and leave the lesser ones because I'd be working forever! It's amazing how much noise we put up with in the LP era, or turned around, how we have come to expect the background silence of the CDs.
Speaking of silence, I saw that Clarabell died last week. I was watching that final Howdy Doody Show when, at the end of the show he whispered, "Good Bye Kids!" The effect was astounding: it was like Marcel Marceau getting in a sudden shouting match with Teller!
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