[LAU] mixing advice/assistance needed

[Thomas Vecchione]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it at gmail.com>wrote:

> I listened to yours as well, and I'd say it is the cleaner of the three,
> however it still does exhibit the same problems as the original (namely the
> highs need to be boosted)
>
>
While I am not really out to defend or otherwise what I did in 15 minutes,
I will say two things on this.  This does come down to personal preference
to an extent, while I obviously boosted the highs, and I thought Fon's was
an improvement, I also thought that Fon's highs were a bit too harsh from
being boosted so much personally.  As I said, a lot comes down to personal
opinion and for something that was done in a relatively short timespan, for
I am certain all of us, there is a lot of subjectiveness going on:)

The other thing I will say is that part of why I chose not to boost the
highs any stronger is there is already evidence of something undesired
going on in that section I needed to track down, and boosting them farther
just brought that out more.  This is not the same thing that led to what I
believe to be the harshness in Fon's version, most likely this is related
to a phase problem introduced by the amount of EQ used or specific EQs I
did use as I used several different filters (Ranging from Harrison, to
Glame, to LinuxDSP), or it is possible it is artifacts from the multiband
gating I used to clean up the hiss, or possibly one of those accentuated by
the other.  The end result is that with that going on I felt it better not
to boost any more;)

All that being said I do like several things about Fon's and was tempted to
just see how it sounded if I merely cleaned it up a bit.  But decided not
to in my case for a variety of reasons:)

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