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Bishop Williamson seminary audios
« on: February 27, 2025, 02:13:05 PM »
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  •  In honour of Bishop Williamson's funeral yesterday, I dug up this old link to a collection of recordings of his scriptures classes from the late 90's in Winona. Enjoy! I hope the link works. 

    Apocalypse Classes in SSPX Seminary 1998/9 : Quo Primum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #1 on: February 27, 2025, 02:18:57 PM »
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  • This is brilliant


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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #2 on: February 27, 2025, 02:22:59 PM »
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  • Thank you!!!  These are a treasure!
    "Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and them that hate Him flee from before His Holy Face"  Psalm 67:2[/b]


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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #3 on: February 27, 2025, 02:24:00 PM »
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  • Great collection ... I was hoping to find something like this.

    But ... how do you download these?

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #4 on: February 27, 2025, 02:26:06 PM »
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  • Great collection ... I was hoping to find something like this.

    But ... how do you download these?
    I don't know, I was given this link YEARS ago. I posted it once on here under another username ... if you figure it out, please let me know!


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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #5 on: February 27, 2025, 02:27:32 PM »
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  • Yeah ... I can try to find some software that might be able to scrape these AND I will put them through a noise-cleanup program (there are good free ones out there).

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #6 on: February 27, 2025, 02:29:12 PM »
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  • Yeah ... I can try to find some software that might be able to scrape these AND I will put them through a noise-cleanup program (there are good free ones out there).
    I have a very low-tech life, so I haven't the foggiest what that means. If you can get it done, we would all be indebted to you. I just think more people should be able to hear these!

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #7 on: February 27, 2025, 02:30:47 PM »
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  • I'll try to get these and upload them here on CI and then clean up the "white noise" you hear on a lot of the audio.  I'd love for everyone to be able to benefit from these talks just as many of us did.


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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #8 on: February 27, 2025, 02:38:14 PM »
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  • I am able to get them by a certain artifice.  Problem is that they're all out of order, datewise, etc.

    But I'll take on a task to get these, organize them properly and clea up the background noise -- in honor of His Excellency Bishop Williamson.

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #10 on: February 27, 2025, 04:32:20 PM »
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  • Audacity (free, open source)
    Use: Low Pass Filter under Effects

    I used to be in charge of the Audio dept at the seminary, and spent so much time in Adobe Audition. And then from 2003-2011 I spent a ton more time, creating Chant CD collections for my side business.

    Lately, I've moved to Audacity, which does many of the same things.

    Download this track as a sample, to see what it sounds like after the filter:
    https://www.cathinfo.com/files/1-12-1998.mp3
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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #11 on: February 27, 2025, 04:58:39 PM »
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  • In honour of Bishop Williamson's funeral yesterday, I dug up this old link to a collection of recordings of his scriptures classes from the late 90's in Winona. Enjoy! I hope the link works.

    Apocalypse Classes in SSPX Seminary 1998/9 : Quo Primum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
    Thank you so much, what a blessing!


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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #13 on: February 27, 2025, 05:18:11 PM »
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  • Audacity (free, open source)
    Use: Low Pass Filter under Effects

    Yes, I was going to run these through Audacity.  There were 70 total files, each about 45 minutes, but there's a ton of white noise on them.  They're also in no particular order, so I'm renaming them to follow a chronological file system order so that they can easily be followed in order.  I'm not sure they're "complete", but 70 45-minutes talks is a treasure trove.

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    Re: Bishop Williamson seminary audios
    « Reply #14 on: February 27, 2025, 05:55:41 PM »
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  • Yes, I was going to run these through Audacity.  There were 70 total files, each about 45 minutes, but there's a ton of white noise on them.  They're also in no particular order, so I'm renaming them to follow a chronological file system order so that they can easily be followed in order.  I'm not sure they're "complete", but 70 45-minutes talks is a treasure trove.
    Yes they are a treasure.

    If you want more control over what you do to the audio, in removing the white noise, you can use a "graphic equalizer" where you have control over each band. Usually the highest ranges you slide all the way down to 0 (totally squelch them) and as you get closer to "human speech" range, you be more careful, maybe attenuate it a bit, but only halfway, or 3/4 of the way, etc.
    That's how I processed many of my chant recordings, to remove white noise hiss from the recording.

    A helpful tip is to run the filter, listen to it, hit UNDO, listen to it again, then hit REDO, and listen to it again. That basically allows you to A/B test back and forth, to see how you did.
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