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    Mar 18, 2020 4 minutes
    Column: Greg Simmons

    In the early ‘60s Arthur C. Clarke wrote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Thirty years later I was baby-sitting a fully-configured CEDAR (Computer Enhanced Digital Audio Restoration) system; a great opportunity because my work involved restoring audio from tape, vinyl and 78rpm discs. Pre-dating iZotope’s RX and native processing by at least a decade, CEDAR was a PC-based system loaded with DSP chips that offered real-time de-noising, de-clicking, de-crackling, etc. It was amazing, and I wondered how to recreate it using the audio building blocks I was familiar with: amplifiers, filters and dynamics processing. I didn’t even know where

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