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kozikowski wrote:Anything that old would certainly have been in mono ...

OFF TOPIC: I'm sufficiently old to remember the BBC experimenting with broadcast stereo. My father moved the television to one corner of the room apart from the radiogram (as instructed by the Beeb) - the BBC broadcast one channel on the radio and the other on the TV and if I remember correctly it was a Sherlock Holmes story and I do distinctly remember the horse-drawn carriage moving from one side of the rudimentary sound-stage to the other.

WC

colonies did that for stereo
am for left channel
fm for right channel

I remember one of the US television tests. Unfortunately I lived so far into the farming country Fringe Area that it was a lost cause.

Koz

50s tellies left a lot to want
we lived in the burbs and barely got decent reception

Thank you very much every one for taking the trouble to answer my query.

@ Whomper - Have downloaded all songs from internet. CD is not available. Songs are in one of the indian language and not done yet.

@ Koz - Well it is gujarati (another indian dialect) but you were very close.. at 75, he is sort of hard of hearing and the lyrics are a really fantastic.. can sacrifice on quality of background score but was hopeful of getting the vocal prominent as i mentioned.. tnx anyways..

@ trebor - i am not in a possesion of the vinyls.. the songs date back from 1940 to 1950 and were sung by different artists and produced by different companies.. these are availble only on net for download.. i will try them again with chris dynamic compressor as mentioned in the thread..

once again, many thanks guys, really appreciate it..

when i try to post a message, i get "Your IP 59.***.***.*** has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=59.***.***.***. I had no problem while registering or while posting this query. Also, i have used my home pc for this which is never used for e-mails..

mkpv wrote:when i try to post a message, i get "Your IP 59.***.***.*** has been blocked because it is blacklisted.

One of the problems with shared IP addresses is that if anyone that uses the same IP address gets blocked by Spamhaus, everyone on that IP address gets blocked.
If your Internet access is with a dynamic IP address, completely shutting down your connection and then making a new connection may give you a different IP address.
If that does not work, try contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP), explain the problem and ask them how you can get a different IP address.

Regarding your original question, I would think that a combination of dynamic compression and equalization will produce the best results. For the Equalizer settings, pull down all frequencies below about 300 Hz and all frequencies above 3000 Hz and gently raise the sliders toward 1000 - 2000 Hz. Experiment with short samples to find the optimum settings.

thank you Steve, tried that (dynamic compression + equalizer) and vocal does sound quite better. But have one more question. The overall volume has gone down. Any suggestion?

If you apply the "Amplify" effect with the default settings it will amplify the track as much as possible without creating distortion.

"Tari aankh no Afini sung by Dilip Dholakia" is on Youtube ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-DzA_Inhc
It looks like a modern album cover on the video, possibly a re-issue which includes the 1950's tracks ?.