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Agh, I was about to order it, but the USD AUD exchange rate is killing me. Not sure I can justify $329 Australian.

I would buy a Mary Lou Williams set in a heartbeat.

I'd suggest that it may just be Mosiac's way of stopping the pre-orders before starting the regular price,

I'm tempted by this set, but the exchange rate is making it hard to justify right now.

I know people in Sydney have got theirs so hopefully ours are still in transit in Australia. Somewhere.

Ugh, this shipping is wild. Tracking tells me my set has been from Secaucus USA to Sydney Australia and now back to Secaucus. I’m in Melbourne. I don’t know what to expect anymore.

I just got a shipping notice. I’m in Australia. Hopefully it will be here within a few months

Jazz music and Formula 1 racing. Clearly I’ve found my people. If anyone here is also a graphic designer we might have be become best friends.

Wait, so if you use PayPal it deducts it straight away? I didn’t realise that. Will do that next time.

I’ve said this before, but I’d really really really prefer they just take my money when I order it. Then I have control over when they take money out of my account, and what the exchange rate is, AND they get the bonus of having the money up front to keep things moving.

FYI If anyone else has pre-ordered but heard nothing from Mosaic, check you spam folder for an email from Scott about issues with payment. That was the cause of my radio silence.

I have those Avid releases but I’ve never been particularly satisfied with the sound. Can anyone recommend an alternative that’s not the Mosaic LP?

This one I designed:

Count me in for that!

You've perfectly captured why that song was necessary in the first place.

Thank you. This has been my experience but I needed a sanity check. I’ve had some success with the “centre channel extractor” feature, which analyses the L and R channel of a stereo digitisation of a mono recording and allows you to keep only the parts that are common to both. It doesn’t fix everything, but has helped. I wonder if someone has made a feature like that that can analyse and combine digitisations of different 78s for the same purpose. I just wish I could drop the overall noise levels without destroying the music, the way the pros seem to do, but i suspect that has more to do with access to clean original sources and metal masters and that sort of thing.

In terms of workflow, do you de-click first, and then denoise? Do you denoise more for certain frequencies?

I’ve been spending some time playing around with restoring some of the recordings over at the Internet Archive and I'm looking for some resources and/or advice. I’m using Adobe Audition (it’s what I have access to) and would appreciate some thoughts on approach for dealing with these sort of recordings: I’m mostly interested in Swing Era recordings that I currently only have in poor quality. The 78 transfers are noticeably better despite the heavy noise. Earl Hines example: https://archive.org/details/78_julia_earl-hines-and-his-orchestra-walter-fuller-george-dixon_gbia0062881a Resources I have found so far are either too simple (run a heavy noise filter over everything), or too complex. I guess I’m looking for something in between suitable for an enthusiast but not an audio engineer. Help appreciated!

This confuses me too. Are there owners that throw the boxes away when they buy them? Or separate everything out for storage and then lose parts? I don't get it.

Ah cool, I've been charged too. Thanks for chasing it up.

I also pre-ordered and haven't heard anything. Are these being shipped out at a staggered, slower-than-usual pace?

Wow, quite a lot there. I'll report back in 277hrs

I think the Mildred Bailey set might be available too. I'd love to see a few more OOP Mosaics that I missed become available, even if it's not quite the same as having a nice box set.

It looks like this set has been rebranded and added to digital services (Apple Music, Spoify etc) by Sony as "Chu Berry: The Columbia and Victor Sessions". I haven't checked but it looks the same as the Mosaic. So if you missed out (on what is my favourite Mosaic release), now's your 2nd chance!