11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
11:02 p.m.
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.
So how do I deal with such material ? Is an exciter useful in this
scenario ? Or ... ?
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.
* 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.
Ciao,
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