Advice on vinyl restoration

Any advice regarding dos and don'ts with vinyl restoration?
Apart from de-noising and removing pops and clicks, how common and/or desirable is it to equalize and/or compress? I am not thinking of good-sounding vinyl, but of old recordings that sound thin. Also, regarding live recordings, does anyone eliminate noises (i.e. clinking glasses, etc) or are they generally left in the recording for authenticity?

>Apart from de-noising and removing pops and clicks, how common and/or desirable is it to equalize and/or compress? I am not thinking of good-sounding vinyl, but of old recordings that sound thin.
It's not able to be determined as a matter of principle; you have to determine what works best in individual cases. If you think that you can make a material improvement to a recording, then there's absolutely no reason why not to, IMHO, but beware - not everybody agrees about this by any means.
>Also, regarding live recordings, does anyone eliminate noises (i.e. clinking glasses, etc) or are they generally left in the recording for authenticity?
It all depends on the recording, how intrusive the unwanted sound is, and whether you could remove the noises without detriment to the wanted sound (being able to do this well is rare, in my experience...). So most of the time they get left in. I don't know about 'authenticity', but it certainly adds to an air of verisimilitude, especially if an audience was present. But even when there isn't one, you still get problems with this. I regularly get plagued with organ action and wind noise, plus other noises-off, on recordings and even if I reduce some of these sounds, I wouldn't take them out altogether, even if I was able to. Because even though it's not 'wanted' sound in the strictest sense, it's a very real part of the
actual sound of the instrument - which some people like, and others don't. It's a no-win situation in many ways. Ho hum...

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