11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
11:39 p.m.
On 02/11/2013 05:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Dave
Phillips wrote:
Alas, that player has gone the way of the dodo. The owner sold the board
and all long ago.
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. * 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