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Some people donate recordings to us with no expectation
of anything in return. Some people want to trade. Either way is
OK with us. Donations can be sent through this link.
In this section called "Products" are a
few ways that we make income from the many recordings we have collected
and from the skills we have acquired in the thousands of hours spent
restoring them. As time passes, we will undoubtedly come up with
other ideas of how to make money.
What is done with this money? This is a crucial
question to be answered.
Money gained by the volunteered time POCM expends
in the above listed activities will be donated to needy drum corps.
POCM will retain only the money required to maintain itself
as a charitable organization. This is our labor of love and not
a labor for cash to be placed in our own pockets; it is an avocation
and not a vocation; it is a way of repaying drum corps for what
it has given us in the hopes that in some small way we can insure
that someone else will have a similar experience. As of this early
day in our history, we have donated $2500.
Those scores of people who have devoted their
time and recordings to POCM are also donating
to struggling modern drum corps. In our collection you will find
many recordings privately recorded and therefore not available through
the customary means. Some of those recordings done by Mom or Dad
sitting in the stands and/or by what we might now call a Mom and
Pop Record Companies are of pretty good quality and PRICELESS
if they are the only recording of your particular corps in that
particular year. We continue to look for these.
 The
software used to remove unwanted sounds from recordings is Adobe
Audition 1.5, state of the art for this purpose. Click
on the hyperlink or the image to learn more about this wonderful
software.
We also have obtained a reel to reel tape player and
a turntable capable of playing 78 rpm records, handy for some 1940's
and early 1950's recordings.
We use a wonderful piece of United States Library
of Congress recommended hardware that can clean a record without
leaving any soap scum or static electricity behind. Follow a hyperlink
by clicking  on
the image and after reading a little on the web site you will be
surprised what possible sources of noise are left behind using standard
methods of record cleaning. With the equipment we have at present,
a high percentage of recordings sound as if they come from the master
tape or at least "as good as new." This piece of hardware
will increase that percentage significantly.
The simplest way of explaining what is a complicated
process is to say:
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the technique of restoring a record is to run
it through this Nitty Gritty cleansing process and then
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use Audition 1.5 to remove any aggravating
sounds that might remain behind after using this hardware.
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