New subject: [linux-audio-user] magic mastering tips needed

6 Apr 2006

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  From: Atte Andr? Jensen &lt;atte.jensen(a)gmail.com&gt;
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 Hi

 I have the following track:

 http://www.atte.dk/at_slum_avenue.ogg

 It's a recording of one of my tunes with my jazz quartet. The recording
 quality leaves a bit to be desired. I hope some of you mastering gurus
 would lend an ear, explain what you think should be done and in what
 program, maybe someone could even find the time to generate an improved
 file. At least I hope to learn a bit about digital audio and mastering
 along the way.

 A few notes:

 A valid question would be "but how do you want it to sound?". Well, good
 :-) At least I think it needs more high frequencies, more definition and
 more presence.

 Needless to say, I'm on a linux-only system, so any tools should be
 linux stuff, but you probl. guessed that :-)

 --
 peace, love & harmony
 Atte

 http://www.atte.dk 
Hi Atte,

That is some really terrific jazz!  I love it!  I really like how it
feels like you're in the room with them.

I did a spectrum analysis on it and noticed that there was a big hump
at about 100 Hz...  so I messed around with it for a bit.  Here's what
I did:

EQ: reduced 100Hz (1.0 octave bandwidth) -16dB
Compress: 2:1 with a threshold of -20dB
Normalize

Here's the result:
http://www.banjoboy.ms11.net/music/at_slum_avenue2.ogg

I don't know if that's closer or farther from what you were looking
for, but that's my attempt at helping... ;-)

-TimH

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