Jascha Heifetz - Valse Bluette (Early Recording) 78RPM HQ HD

An acoustic single sided 78 rpm disc of one of Heifetz's early recordings. I picked up a whole lot of these discs a couple of months ago and will be uploading more. From a recording session on 9th November 1917 at Victor's studios in Camden, New Jersey. The second of two takes was used. The pianist is André Benoist. USA Victor and UK HMV were commercially linked, each issuing the other's recordings under their own label in their own country; both used Nipper and the gramophone and the angel logos at various times.
Transferred using a 3mil conical with light declick and noise reduction (-3dB) on Gnome Wave Cleaner. 48dB/Octave low pass filter at 6000Hz, nothing above that on the original recording. I gave the bass a little boost from 250Hz to 80Hz where it was steeply rolled off. This recording shows the distinctive timbre of an acoustic recording.
All processing and uploading was done losslessly to avoid transcoding artifacts.
SME copyright charlatans tried to claim copyright on this video. WRONG - As it's pre 1923 it's public domain. Bloody scroungers trying to claim revenue for my hard work. I never will have ads on my videos if I can help it!
Many thanks to 6dBperOctave for the info!

[@6dBperOctave]

From the Encyclopaedic Discography of Victor Recordings* your HMV 4-7938 is from a recording session on 9th November 1917 at Victor's studios in Camden, New Jersey. The second of two takes was used. The pianist is André Benoist. USA Victor and UK HMV were commercially linked, each issuing the other's recordings under their own label in their own country; both used Nipper and the gramophone and the angel logos at various times. Good sound for an acoustic. * victor dt library dt ucsb dt edu

[@delta7155]

Brilliant! Thanks for uploading.

[@ninfilms]

I got the same record. I always like a sound of an old record.

[@martinadler73]

I agree: ClickRepair works like a charm.

[@MichaelFearnleyBass]

Difficult to implement without any arduous tweaking, it works well but you need to have a good ear and an eye for spectrograms. I found that DeNoise and Clickrepair by Brian Davies are more rewarding for the time spent, anyway. If you are doing 45s don't forget the high pass filter at subsonic and to kill the separation on any mono discs.

[@bwv1064]

The SME copyright charlatans indeed! I'm glad (not glad) I'm not the only one plagued by them! Do you know of a good way to dispute their claims?

[@MichaelFearnleyBass]

Just dispute the claim via KZbin. Simply state that it's a transfer of a disc released over 80 years ago so the copyright is void.