JON ASTLEY RESTORES 'THE WHO' WITH CEDAR RACKMOUNT UNITS
10 February 1999
Jon Astley recieving his CEDAR Award from Sales Director, Clive Osborn
JON ASTLEY, winner of the 1998 CEDAR Award for 'CD REMASTERING FROM A MODERN RECORDING - POST 1949' has recently restored a compilation of recordings by 'THE WHO' for release on Polydor and MCA later this year.
The live tracks range from the 1965 ANYWAY ANYHOW ANYWHERE to the 1973 Old Grey Whistle Test recordings of RELAY and LONG LIVE ROCK. The compilation also includes rare versions of GOOD LOVIN', JUST YOU AND ME, and even a recording of DANCING IN THE STREET, as well as the popular WHO classics.
Jon Astley, who owns a CEDAR DC-1 De-Clicker and a CR-1 De-Crackler, used the CR-1 to remove crackle from the audio tracks, as well as some of the dialogue that appeared between each track.
Astley explained "The dialogue consisted of Brian Matthews interviews with Pete Townsend. Both Townsend and Matthews were unintelligible in places due to the large amount of crackle, however, the CR-1 De-Crackle performed an excellent job in removing this."
Astley won the 'CD REMASTERING FROM A MODERN RECORDING - POST 1949' for his restoration of THE LED ZEPPELIN BBC SESSIONS ON ATLANTIC RECORDINGS. He used his DC-1 De-Clicker and his CR-1 De-Crackler, as well as CEDAR's De-Noise plug-in running on a SADiE Editor, to remove clicks, scratches, crackle and hiss from these recordings.
