The Game of 30 {Cassette Rip} Maximum Denoised - Less Bright 3rd Restore - William Kotzwinkle

Written by William Kotzwinkle
Read by Frank Muller
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

3rd Restore Denoised at Maximum Dolby Noise Reduction with no High End Brightening. Less spackly at the high end but also less clear and bright. Some may prefer this version so I am proving it as well.

True cassette rip in Stereo followed by volume normalization and cleaning of low and high frequency muffling and sharpness.

Streetwise PI Jimmy McShane has seen plenty, but he’s never seen anything like the murder of Tommy Rennseler. A wealthy antiques dealer with a passion for Egyptian artifacts, Rennseler was killed like an ancient Egyptian: injected with cobra venom and ritually disembowelled. When he’s hired by the dead man’s daughter, McShane realizes that he’s never seen anything like Temple Rennseler, either. She’s beautiful, exotic and - obsessed with the Game of 30, a centuries-old form of chess that - perhaps - foretells the future. As McShane gets closer to the killer, he finds himself trapped in a more deadly game, with Manhattan as the gameboard.

Digitally Enhanced in order to fix audio recording Speed/Pitch/Tone as much as possible so that the recording sounds like the late legend, Frank Muller himself.

He had many variations on his voice depending on what he was reading, so I had to try and fix the recording to match the type he was using for that book, ie fast and upbeat or low and measured, (like the difference between his reading of John Grisham legal thrillers and Stephen King and cop thrillers with mafia voices and Silence of the Lambs or Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles) and the year, as he sounded different in the early 80s than he did in late 80s and 90s and 2000s.

Many recordings out there have severe audio issues which stem from the digital source which likely stems from a bad cassette transfer, which I have endeavored to fix so that Frank can be heard as he actually was.

Noise, Bass/Treble etc have also been tuned, along with Audio level being normalized to -3db top end max with a maximum boost of +2.5db for lower volume areas. Audio encode frequency is 44.1KHz at 128Kbps Stereo for best quality with no compression artifacts (unless source was low quality to begin with and noise couldnt be completely removed).

Many of these were very bad and I have done the best I can over 12 years working on these to restore them once I discovered Frank Muller in 2010, 2 years after he passed away. Long Live THE LEGEND