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It seems to me that I read once of a device at the Library of Congress which is a purpose built laser scanner for extracting such waveforms from old records, ev
by leed25d 16y ago
It seems to me that I read once of a device at the Library of Congress which is a purpose built laser scanner for extracting such waveforms from old records, even the drums.
- jessevondoom 16y agoYeah they're IRENE scanners. Pretty amazing, actually. Able to lift sound off the most delicate old recordings. Probably a lot of possibility for repair of lost fragments visually: http://irene.lbl.gov/ http://irene.lbl.gov/ And there are laser turntables for commercial purposes as well. Not a visual product, in interesting still...