There is debate over how many gunshots can be heard on the recording, but if Fadeyev and Haber’s method can be converted to restore the Dictabelt recording, there is a possibility that a restored version of the recording could shed more light on the matter.įadeyev said Dictabelt No. 10, has been a highly debated piece of evidence in the case of Kennedy’s assassination. The radio traffic was being recorded on a Dictabelt, and the recording, known as Dictabelt No. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, a Dallas police officer riding on a motorcycle in the procession had his radio on when the shots that killed Kennedy were fired. In addition to researching to make IRENE more efficient and produce higher quality scans, the pair have been contacted by the National Archives to help restore a very controversial recording.ĭuring the motorcade when President John F. “Hearing Edison speaking in his owns words is something that needs to be preserved.” He also stressed the historical significance of their work. With this, there is an immediate application of the science.” “Most of the things we do are pure research the applications are decades away. Fred Olness was very excited by the discovery. Holland predicted that this technology would make future remasterings of old recordings easier and create better quality recordings of songs available for future generations. “This is fantastic because it’s a whole new means for getting the data.” Mark Holland, who works at a recording studio and restores recordings on a freelance basis, was at the lecture and described the technology as “magnificent.” Since then, Fadeyev and Haber have restored old recordings of Thomas Edison, a previously unconfirmed recorded outtake of Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” and other early 20th century recordings that had previously been too damaged to play. They named the machine Image Reconstruct Erase Noise, Etc., or IRENE.įadeyev said IRENE’s name was a tribute to the song on which they first used their technology. The physicists then began building a machine for the SmartScope scans. The original recording was full of static and was distorted from age and deterioration, but when the digital scan was used to play the song, the sound was clear and free of distortion. When Fadeyev and Haber began their work, they went to a used record store and purchased a 78-rpm disc of The Weavers’ “Goodnight Irene.” He said once they realized what was possible with the technology, they began to study the mechanics of recording sound to help their restoration work. “We played with this idea, but we didn’t know what to expect,” Fadeyev said. ![]() Haber and Fadeyev had previously used the technology to track the subatomic particles set free in physics experiments.Īfter the digital images of the recordings were created, Fadeyev wrote a computer program that duplicates the movement of a record player stylus to create digital copies of the sound on the record.įadeyev said that he and Haber got the idea for the project when they heard a news story about old recordings that were damaged and in need of restoration and preservation. The SmartScope then builds a digital image of the grooves. The microscopic grooves in the recordings are scanned using a digital microscope called a SmartScope. ![]() The restoration process is unlike any previous attempts at restoring old recordings because it does not require the recordings to be played. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.įadeyev presented his research and preliminary successes at a lecture on campus Monday night. Vitaliy Fadeyev, a class of 2000 graduate in the department of physics doctorate program, is developing the program with fellow researcher Dr. Voices from the past visit Hilltop (Photo by John Schreiber, The Daily Campus)Īn SMU alumnus is developing a new technique to restore historic recordings of the early 20th century.
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