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Old audio equipment worked, and it worked for the audience of the time. We can do better now.
Restoration goes back to the original media, digitizes it and processes it into something that does not degrade.
Endpoint Audio, Nic Bergh and staff, collects antique equipment, restores it, then uses it to restore old media.
Simon Hayes is a famous movie location recorder. He is in LA now for the Oscars and was invited by Academy governor in the sound division, Peter Devlin for a tour. He visited Endpoint and posted some photos on Facebook. Thanks Mr Hayes and Mr Devlin.
Hayes writes:
"Nic is responsible for the sound on the current Led Zeppelin film. He is also, and I'm not over exaggerating, the worlds foremost expert on the history and renovation of film sound equipment.
His collection (which he has restored to full working order after traveling the globe to rescue pieces of historic equipment) dates all the way back to the 1920's and wax recordings, through to the first microphones used on the first "talkies".
Not only is he a Re-Recording Mixer, he is also what I can only describe as a the most uniquely skilled audio engineer I have ever met.
He played us an original print of Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" in his viewing theater, playing through an era correct 150 watt Valve Amplified 1939 speaker system (which sounded absolutely superb! Warm and sumptuous).
At one point out of the corner of my eye I saw a piece of equipment I recognized: as I got closer I realized it wasn't the actual piece I recognized but the brands signature look: it was a wind-up Nagra.
It's funny, when I started in the film game as a teenager I remember seeing so many bits of equipment gathering dust in the old sound rooms at Pinewood left over from the 1940's : Nic has many of the same bits of equipment fully restored. He is a genius and I feel privileged to have met him and seen his collection.
www.endpointaudio.com
It would be fun to take an Audio Precision down there and characterize some of the antique gear! Between Audio Precision, Klippel, the AES, philanthropists and institutional grantmakers, there should be a way.
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Restoration goes back to the original media, digitizes it and processes it into something that does not degrade.
Endpoint Audio, Nic Bergh and staff, collects antique equipment, restores it, then uses it to restore old media.
Simon Hayes is a famous movie location recorder. He is in LA now for the Oscars and was invited by Academy governor in the sound division, Peter Devlin for a tour. He visited Endpoint and posted some photos on Facebook. Thanks Mr Hayes and Mr Devlin.
Hayes writes:
"Nic is responsible for the sound on the current Led Zeppelin film. He is also, and I'm not over exaggerating, the worlds foremost expert on the history and renovation of film sound equipment.
His collection (which he has restored to full working order after traveling the globe to rescue pieces of historic equipment) dates all the way back to the 1920's and wax recordings, through to the first microphones used on the first "talkies".
Not only is he a Re-Recording Mixer, he is also what I can only describe as a the most uniquely skilled audio engineer I have ever met.
He played us an original print of Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" in his viewing theater, playing through an era correct 150 watt Valve Amplified 1939 speaker system (which sounded absolutely superb! Warm and sumptuous).
At one point out of the corner of my eye I saw a piece of equipment I recognized: as I got closer I realized it wasn't the actual piece I recognized but the brands signature look: it was a wind-up Nagra.
It's funny, when I started in the film game as a teenager I remember seeing so many bits of equipment gathering dust in the old sound rooms at Pinewood left over from the 1940's : Nic has many of the same bits of equipment fully restored. He is a genius and I feel privileged to have met him and seen his collection.
Philosophy — Endpoint Audio Labs
www.endpointaudio.com
It would be fun to take an Audio Precision down there and characterize some of the antique gear! Between Audio Precision, Klippel, the AES, philanthropists and institutional grantmakers, there should be a way.
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