DJ Howard Merritt - Live At The Flamingo (NY) - New Years Eve 1979-1980 (Jim Hopkins Remaster)

From the Jimmy DePre mixtape archives. *This tape took some time (6 hours) to restore. The recording was taken from a reel-to-reel tape, that had been converted to a VHS Hi-FI video tape, in the mid-late 80's. VHS Hi-FI tapes that were recorded in the SLP (slowest speed) are very hard to restore. After years of the DJ VHS tapes sitting in poor storage conditions (sometimes in damp/hot garages, storage units, or basements), the tape tends to stretch out/shrink, which causes bad tracking issues when playing the tape back. This tape was having tracking issues, so I sent the tape to my friend Tom Yaz. He has a high end VHS cleaning machine that cleans tapes, and revives them. He then converted the audio to digital for me, to remaster. I had to trim 25 mins. off of the beginning of the mix, due to major crackling issues in the recording. There are some areas of the mix that had very minimal tracking issues. I was able to remove most of the sound artifacts, but there may be some areas that you can slightly hear it in the mix. I was also able to remove the tape hiss from the recording, as well as slight hum sound from the VCR. New EQ was also applied. You can read up about DJ Howard Merrit at the following URL: http://www.pineshistory.org/dj-howard-merritt/