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Title: What was this recorded with?
Review: It sounds like it was recorded with a cheap hand-held cassette recorder with the batteries running down! There are sneezes and coughs and it was mastered at the wrong speed! If you MUST have this, I suggest ripping it to your hard drive and then running software such as Adobe Audition. Remove the noise, add some extra equalization, and transpose the entire thing up by 2-4 semitones depending on the piece, in resample mode, so that the length of each passage is shortened by the same amount that the pitch goes up. It should sound like boys and men singing, not demons and post-menopausal women with sore throats. It almost sounds halfway decent then.
