Restoring Old Tape

How a Passionate Engineer Restored Early Recordings of One of Denmark’s Biggest Pop Bands and preserved his brother’s legacy.

It takes a diverse collection of skills to innovate and create the tools for which TC Electronic is famed. So, it’s only a matter of time before you come across a team member whose talents go far beyond the workplace. And nowhere is that more apparent than in TC Electronic’s Christian G. Frandsen.

Christian has been our Product Development Engineer and Specialist for 25 years and helps develop our professional studio equipment. But being an engineer, for Christian, doesn’t stop at TC Electronic. You could even say that it runs in the family

During the remastering process, Christian used several different effects, compressors and metering solutions from TC Electronic

Further, TC Electronic System 6000, Clarity X, Studio Konnekt 48 was used as well Some of the other amazing tools that were used in this project were from: Steinberg, Audionamix, iZotope, Voxengo, Waves, Klevgrand, SSL, RTW, Dynaudio and DPA Microphones

The remastered 1981 Holbaek recordings were released in January 2022, 40 years after they were initially committed to tape, and have been made available in many different streaming platforms, cassette tape and vinyl, which received great reviews and even reached no. 1 on the Danish vinyl chart; with TV-2’s early formative performances, and Anders and Christian’s hard work available for everyone to hear.

A circle is drawn,” says Christian “and it’s both a huge pleasure and a great challenge to help this concert on its way. I am very grateful that TV-2 has been so obliging and patient in the long process.”

Sven Gaul, the drummer of TV-2, states:

“It has been a privilege to work with Christian on this project which we never thought would be realized. It took nearly five years, so the band didn’t believe it would work. But technology, Christian’s patience and the excellent work of Audionamix made this possible. We are more than happy with the result, and it looks like we all are starting a new trend”.

Promotion video for the album

TV-2 Website

The album is available here