Song From Lekh (1949), Asha-Rafi duet in horrendous quality!!!! Options

[Priya]

Good news--here is a rare song--possibly rare even to the many ardent Rafians of MAS.
Bad news--the song is in awful quality. So much crackle and noise and I do not seem to be able to do a thing about it!!!
Hopeful news--maybe someone else can
Options
1. Genial genie--Talkzji probably can wave a magic wand and transform this.
2. Regular genie--Unni maybe can cast his spell
3. The Master--the acclaimed Guruji who is rarely seen on this forum--maybe he can do the trick.
Anyway here is the song. By chance if someone has this in cdq or decent quality do ul it!!!!!!

[humble_rafi]

PRIYA JI
i dun care abt the quality if the song is rare and that too RAFI SAHAB in it.

thanx

[hits]

Good news--here is a rare song--possibly rare even to the many ardent Rafians of MAS.
Bad news--the song is in awful quality. So much crackle and noise and I do not seem to be able to do a thing about it!!! 
Hopeful news--maybe someone else can
Options
1. Genial genie--Talkzji probably can wave a magic wand and transform this.
2. Regular genie--Unni maybe can cast his spell
3. The Master--the acclaimed Guruji who is rarely seen on this forum--maybe he can do the trick.
Anyway here is the song. By chance if someone has this in cdq or decent quality do ul it!!!!!!

Allow me to posit a different perspective on song quality. The song you've uploaded has crackle and noise, but is actually in "good" quality. In my opinion, the voices of the singers themselves are clear in this upload, with "some distortion". The sharpness and timber are very much retained. The music is clouded, but trust me, this is not "bad quality" for an uncommon 1949 song.

[Priya]

Hitsji I am thrilled (actually I worked a little on that song--there was more noise than this--but I am sure Guruji will do magic for us). Well i share Humbleji's thoughts that if a song is rare and of a singer we like then quality is secondary. But good quality makes the joy greater.
A thought on the isuue. I sent a request to a collector for the song badal ghir aaye--then forgot abt it and ordered it from hamaracd. Now what a diff in quality. The one on tape from the collector has a bit of hiss and is not that sharp. Whereas the hcd one which i uled is perfect (hcd is not always that good--they are lazy often and in the same collection gave me a horrendous Punjabi track with fluctuating vol!!!) The point though is that obviously the original source would have been very much like what the collector gave me but wow what a transformation has taken place. If I could make all these old songs sound that way I wopuld be very happy. Hope to pick up more and more tips from out audio pundits here.

[Talaikya]

Priya ji,
Could you PM me the original sound file please??
Thanks,

T

[Guru]

Can u send me the raw file also.

Guru

[mohd2004]

Million thanks Priya for the rarest or rare song- from Lekh.
Sure as pointed out by humble Rafi-ji, we will not care for the quality for such rare songs. These songs of LEKH used to be played on Radio Ceylon and never on Vividh Bharati, probably I think they also didn't have. heard after 2 decades.

Mohd.

[Talaikya]

Priya ji,
Could you PM me the original sound file please??
Thanks,

T

Can u send me the raw file also.

Guru

Priya ji,
U can PM the file to either one of us, who will PM it to the other, considering your connection speed et al.
T

[vikram]

Thanks !!!! Priya ji for this Rare track !!! I would say that you should post the original track also on the thread....

[Priya]

Priya ji,
U can PM the file to either one of us, who will PM it to the other, considering your connection speed et al.
T

Maker of the Monster ji!!!
PM mein copy option hai!!!
Now U go
U all want the file here--we are gonna have 5 diff edited versions. Someone will have to do a poll and tell me which is the best to dl (I already have got one from a shy friend )
Oke doke--will ul the old file and let the best genie win!!!!!!!!!!!

[Talaikya]

Maker of the Monster ji!!!
PM mein copy option hai!!!
Now U go 

Not once, not twice but ...
Never copied attachments to anyone, hence the ignorance; now maybe you've created one... a Monster... what else??

[Priya]

U mean our mailboxes are gonna be fileld with copies of original Tji attachments??? Whatever they may be

[mohd2004]

Priya, I have tried to correct the speed and did reduce slightly needle noise, but if we try to reduce more the needle noise, voice tends to get distorted. Anyway the quality of the song is quite OK as it has its sharpness and its not muddy as pointed out by Hits.


Mohd.

[Priya]

Priya, I have tried to correct the speed and did  reduce slightly needle noise, but if we try to reduce more the needle noise, voice tends to get distorted.  Anyway the quality of the song is quite OK as it has its sharpness  and its not muddy as pointed out by Hits.
Mohd.

Thanks Mohdsaab--I did wonder if I ought to have speeded the playback rate (the one thing I am good at) but did not.
But maybe U ought to have waited for the original file as I did tweak abt with this one and may have done more harm than good as probably our experts will tell me when I ul the original!!

[Priya]

Ok cannot wait--patience has never been one of my many virtues.
Here is the original file--no mp3pro--all of mp3 128 kbs--magicians set to work!!!!!!