The Black Museum: The Car Tyre & The Champagne Glass

✍What’s on today✍
Welcome listeners to your Old Time Radio Monday. Where I bring you remastered episodes straight from any old time series. These series are produced around the 1940’s and have old school actors with a range of stories, depending on the series. Lately I’ve been remastering The Black Museum, which are old time radio episodes focused on household items being used to maim, slash, or facilitate murder.

The Black Museum is also presented by Orson Welles, a fantastic actor, writer, and director, with a very unique and charismatic voice. Now folks your two tales today were a doosie. The Car Tire is our first episode, wrought with pops, clicks, random silences, and frequent mic thud sounds. Distracting and annoying – I was able to deploy two new tricks today; cutting silences in the audio greater than 0.03 seconds, and using plosive-filters to cut out the thud sounds. This made a HUGE difference.

If your wondering what plosive filter does, it cuts out the thuds, pops, and any invasion bits of audio that are significantly sharp in the audio – I was able to tweak that filter to eliminate them. A really good challenge today folks, and a great way to start my week. Your second story Champagne was much easier, but had a heavy noise challenge, which I’m used to, so nothing major there.

EPISODE NOTES:
Source: zootradio.com/Black_Museum.php
#1: The Car Tire zootradio.com/uploads/Black_Museum/52XXXX_009_The_Car_Tire.mp3

#2: The Champagne Glass zootradio.com/uploads/Black_Museum/52XXXX_010_The_Champagne_Gl.mp3

Credits

All Radio episodes remastered are in the Public Domain unless notified otherwise.

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Part of our guide: Old Time Radio Horror & Suspense

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