Re: [linux-audio-user] magic mastering tips needed

> From: Atte Andr? Jensen <atte.jensen@email-addr-hidden>
> Subject: [linux-audio-user] magic mastering tips needed
> To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>
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> Hi
>
> I have the following track:
>
> http://www.atte.dk/at_slum_avenue.ogg
>
> It's a recording of one of my tunes with my jazz quartet. The recording
> quality leaves a bit to be desired. I hope some of you mastering gurus
> would lend an ear, explain what you think should be done and in what
> program, maybe someone could even find the time to generate an improved
> file. At least I hope to learn a bit about digital audio and mastering
> along the way.
>
> A few notes:
>
> A valid question would be "but how do you want it to sound?". Well, good
> :-) At least I think it needs more high frequencies, more definition and
> more presence.
>
> Needless to say, I'm on a linux-only system, so any tools should be
> linux stuff, but you probl. guessed that :-)
>
> --
> peace, love & harmony
> Atte
>
> http://www.atte.dk

Hi Atte,

That is some really terrific jazz! I love it! I really like how it
feels like you're in the room with them.

I did a spectrum analysis on it and noticed that there was a big hump
at about 100 Hz... so I messed around with it for a bit. Here's what
I did:

EQ: reduced 100Hz (1.0 octave bandwidth) -16dB
Compress: 2:1 with a threshold of -20dB
Normalize

Here's the result:
http://www.banjoboy.ms11.net/music/at_slum_avenue2.ogg

I don't know if that's closer or farther from what you were looking
for, but that's my attempt at helping... ;-)

-TimH
Received on Fri Apr 7 00:15:03 2006