Thank you for your comments and communications. Some of them have been very helpful, and others have been hurtful. We are beginning to appreciate the nature of the situation, and we now realize that further clarification is necessary. We apologize for not responding to each individual contact, but we have reviewed all of the English missives and hope this answers any lingering questions.
1) We do not personally know the clients who brought this to us. One of our staff engineers, Kyle, was paid $50 for 30 minutes of his time to answer the simple technical question, "Has this been edited?" The answer to that question was yes. In hindsight, should he have asked more questions or not gotten involved at all? Obviously, yes, but what's done is done, and we cannot reverse that. This is an honest mistake by a young, conscientious, hard-working staff member. If he spoke a word of Turkish, he quickly could have realized the true nature of what he was dealing with.
2) We have been made aware that this is a compilation of five recordings edited together. That is consistent with the edits we heard. Anything that has been done to this recording beyond the conjoining of those five sections -- as obvious to most of you (probably far more obvious, as you speak the language) as it was to us -- remains outside our area of expertise.
3) Do not take our observations that "we heard some edits" as a confirmation or denial regarding whether these recordings are "real" or edited in terms of their content. That would require an audio forensics professional with a very specialized audio forensics lab. We are a commercial studio that specializes in recording and producing music. We were asked only if there were any edits in the sound file we were given and we determined that there were. At the time, the question seemed quite simple and specific.
4) We regret that we unknowingly got involved in this, and we hope this clarification will allow us to get back to doing what we do best: helping artists make a piece of music sound as good as it can. I have personally had the good fortune to work with many great Turkish musicians, deeply love the musical culture, and wish no harm to anyone. I hope this puts an end to our involvement in this, and I reiterate that these other questions of content and fraudulence can be resolved by someone qualified to do so. I can assure all of you that if this client ever walks back into our studio, he can keep his $50! It is a certainty that if the client had been forthcoming with Kyle about the nature of the assignment and material, we never would have gotten involved.
Sincerely,
Randy Crafton
Kaleidoscope Sound
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