Preserving the Sound Archive
Hear from the people behind the scenes at the BBC Archive
Preserving the Sound Archive
Preserving the Sound Archive
An interview with Julia Weaver, BBC Sound Archivist
Julia Weaver, who preserves sound recordings for the BBC, tells us about everything from wax cylinders to digital files.
- Click on a heading below to jump to that section of the film
- What's in the BBC Sound Archive?
- The Sound Preservation Team
- What are the earliest sound recordings?
- Discs
- Tape
- How did the Sound Archive begin?
- Preserving the Sound Archive for the Future
- Sound Restoration
- An Expanding Archive
Transcript
Sound Restoration
Sometimes we experience problems with some formats, for example vinyl. Quite often these recordings can be very scratchy or very hissy and we can actually process those files through something called a Cedar, or a piece of software, to actually de-crackle that recording, and we can make them sound a lot cleaner and a lot closer to the original recording.
