[LAU] mixing advice/assistance needed

[Dave Phillips]

On 02/11/2013 05:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
>
>> I have an old track that needs brightened up a bit. It was recorded
>> on a mixing board cassette deck (I said it was old, didn't I ?), a
>> direct feed I think, and the sound quality is, shall we say,
>> unlovely.
>>
>>
> It needs quite a bit of EQ, but there are some other issues.
>
> * Did you try and adjust the head azimuth of the casestte
>    player ? It could make a huge difference.

Alas, that player has gone the way of the dodo. The owner sold the board 
and all long ago.


> * The file seems to be 'perfect mono' which makes me suspect
>    it was mixed to mono after playback - I can't imagine a
>    recording damaged like this one producing two exactly
>    equal tracks even if the original was mono. In that case
>    it could help to have the L and R outputs of the player
>    separately.
>

See above. But thanks, Fons, I was hoping you'd weigh in on the 
question. Harry's suggested EQ settings make a great difference, I'll 
continue to play with the equalizer and hope to come up with a passable 
track. I'm doing it for the keyboardist, he'd like to hear the track 
again after so many years.

Best,

dp