[LAU] New music, made with Ardour 3

[S. Massy]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 07:48:04PM +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> On 21/10/11 10:29 AM, S. Massy wrote:
> >I very much like the mood of this piece, and, as someone else said, it
> >could be longer... Unfortunately, there are a lot of issues with high
> >frequencies to my ears caused by all the sweeping filters and the drum
> >processing which makes it grating and spoils the mood. :( Hopefully,
> >it's just some idiosyncrasy of my hardware or wetware (ears) and others
> >will not be affected, because this piece is otherwise very good.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the feedback -- the glitchyness of the drums is
> deliberate, of course, but I wonder if there's a way to smooth out
> the higher frequencies a bit. I've heard people say that bouncing to
> some good quality tape has various magical qualities, including
> smoothing out high frequency transients in general, but I tend to be
> suspicious of such claims :)
I've heard similar claims, among others, that bouncing to a high quality
VHS tape (using a quality VCR, obviously) can do wonders. My guess is it
has something to do with gentle, non-linear, natural compression
occuring at that stage, but other, more knowledgeable people probably
could elucidate this better than I could.


> 
> I may revisit this mix in a while; if I do, I'll see what I can do
> with some EQ to smooth things out.
Definitely let us know when you do.

Cheers,
S.M.