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GRAMMY Award winning mastering engineer Michael Graves has been working with analog media most of his life. He began focusing on digital audio restoration in 1998 and founded Osiris Studio a few years later in 2002 out of his love for recorded sound. Since then he has worked with hundreds of clients converting, preserving and cleaning up audio. Those clients include record labels, film makers, museums, archives, personal collections, law firms, and legal agencies. Because of the nature of most of the projects with which he works (rare, one-of-a-kind recordings, deteriorating media, etc.) Michael Graves operates his business with this basic philosophy: Provide Osiris Studio customers with the highest quality product possible, because there may not be another opportunity to do so. This goal is achieved by a comprehensive knowledge of all current and aging media types, using only the best possible playback equipment, employing uncompromising analog to digital converters and delivering the final audio on a media format that is archivally stable, useable and best suited to the customer’s needs.
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o-si-ris (ō-sī-ris) noun, Mythology. Egyptian god of resurrection and renewed life. o-si-ris stu-di-o (ō-sī-ris stoo-dē-ō) noun. Mastering and audio restoration facility specializing in bringing recordings back to life. |
WHAT IS AUDIO RESTORATION Audio restoration can generally be described as the process of removing or reducing unwanted noises and imperfections from an audio recording. Audio restoration can also include the physical act of repairing recording media to enable playback of the media. Usually people tend to focus on the digital aspect of audio restoration (de-click, de-hiss, de-buzz, etc). While a good portion of the restoration process can and does take place in the digital world, equally important is the analog side of the process: physically cleaning the media, visually inspecting the media for damage, knowing how to best deal with that damage, choosing the most appropriate playback device, i.e., the correct stylus size for records, the correct head for tapes. For example: as good as the best digital audio restoration software is at removing clicks and pops from an old record, it is no substitute for a professionally cleaned record, and the use of a correctly sized needle for playback. A dirty record played with an inexpensive needle will never sound as good as it should regardless of any digital restoration preformed at a later date. So it’s best to view audio restoration as a process from beginning to end that includes elements such as: selecting the best source material, cleaning and repairing the source material, selecting playback equipment that will make the source material sound the best, capturing the analog sound digitally with a high quality analog to digital converter and finally…after all that…it’s time for some digital restoration. For that you need two things: |
