envirozentinel wrote:
Surely they would? It would be fantastic one day to see your name in the end credits of a movie - "sound technician - Auntblabby" Do you know how to improve the sound quality of poor original recordings made when soundtracks were not as hi-tech as they are now?
that is what I do as an advanced avocation. I am not the first, obviously- "remastering" [means going back to the original master recordings and optimizing them in various ways] is a sonic art going back the 1960s. some quasi-miraculous stuff has been done, including rendering of monophonic original masters into genuine multichannel stereo, removal of surface noise and distortion, extension of frequency response. so to answer your question, there are many examples of improved sound quality in modern releases of archival material.