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There must have been some tiny glitch on one of my tracks, because the engineer -- looking as pleased as a dentist who's discovered a cavity -- rolled his swivel chair over to his newest toy: a Cedar digital declicking unit. This device, he explained, would search my recordings for clicks, crackles and other errors and strip them out faster than you could say "Leadbelly."
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Fifteen years later mastering studios -- and digital restoration devices made by companies like Cedar Audio -- still flourish. But something else has happened in the interim, something either contradictory or complementary, depending on how you look at it. There are now all sorts of devices that, rather than removing "imperfections" like crackle and click, actually add them.
The first device I noticed was a hard-disk recorder I bought in Japan in 2001, the Korg D12. Amongst its digital effects was a patch called "analog crackle." It was the Cedar declicker in reverse. In fact, you can imagine a sort of Godzilla movie, Cedar Meets Korg, in which the two devices spar to the death in a ruined cityscape, one trying to generate glitches, the other to obliterate them.
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