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In Reply to: No Problem...But posted by RBP on March 25, 2001 at 01:41:53:
At the risk of offending I've never heard so much rubbish in all my life! I'm a mastering engineer mastering approx 200 albums a year, and to suggest that you can make poor demo recordings match up to a good professional recording is crap. Sure you can improve the sound of a demo recording most times, but why do you want to take it 24bit/96khz? On the CD its 16bit, and even in the best studios available today noise performance of the equipement is maximum of about 80db in ideal conditions. If the music is a rock performance I guarantee that its considerably worse than that. Polite sounding demos are continually a problem, and many of those stem from poor recording techniques and more commonly poor performance from the band. Going back to the original master tape is unlikely to yeild much improvement in sound over the CDR. A touch of compression with a good mastering compressor and some equalisation with a good analogue EQ (eg pultecs, manleys, focusrite, GML ect) should improve the sound significantley. Finally mastering to say another CDR. It may be of use at that stage to apply some noise reduction, but if that is the case extreme care is required. In all its a job best handled by an experienced professional. The real trick to good sound in recording is a good performance. If I had a pound for every player I have heard who's got all the gear, but still sounds band due to his lack of musicality I'd be retired.
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- Re: No Problem...But - Roland 16:24:51 03/25/01 (3)
- Re: No Problem...But - RBP 17:53:58 03/25/01 (1)
- Re: No Problem...But - Roland 11:04:15 03/26/01 (0)
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