Hi to all you fine folk,
I'd really like some advice on the digital distortion on this track, but would also like to know how it sounds to people as an original idea anyway. It has a special place in my heart, so I'd like to save the recording if poss, rather than re-record it.
I've re-mastered it, as there's some bad digital distortion in the original (recorded in 2000) which is due to me not paying attention to levels properly years ago, as before that I used to get away with tape saturation on reel-to-reel. I bought a 4-track digital portastudio back then and didn't realise how different it was to analogue, and along with using "rubbish" headphones, the distortion got locked in !!! I've done my best to reduce it by twiddling EQs and it's a bit better, although still noticeable, and I've had to sacrifice brightness. Listening back after all these years, the vocals seem too low in the mix, but they're locked in position via bounce-downs.
If I took it to a real studio engineer, could it be cleaned up completely using computer techniques. I don't really know myself as I don't record on computer yet. Any advice from those in the know, on whether this is possible, would be very helpful – cheers in advance!
It's a more musical offering than my latest stuff and is called The Eternal Light of Will. Thanks for reading and, in advance, for listening and advice. Click this direct link:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=662928&songID=6190630
Hope you can hear the passion I put into it, regardless of the less than perfect production.
dreamer7
I'd really like some advice on the digital distortion on this track, but would also like to know how it sounds to people as an original idea anyway. It has a special place in my heart, so I'd like to save the recording if poss, rather than re-record it.
I've re-mastered it, as there's some bad digital distortion in the original (recorded in 2000) which is due to me not paying attention to levels properly years ago, as before that I used to get away with tape saturation on reel-to-reel. I bought a 4-track digital portastudio back then and didn't realise how different it was to analogue, and along with using "rubbish" headphones, the distortion got locked in !!! I've done my best to reduce it by twiddling EQs and it's a bit better, although still noticeable, and I've had to sacrifice brightness. Listening back after all these years, the vocals seem too low in the mix, but they're locked in position via bounce-downs.
If I took it to a real studio engineer, could it be cleaned up completely using computer techniques. I don't really know myself as I don't record on computer yet. Any advice from those in the know, on whether this is possible, would be very helpful – cheers in advance!
It's a more musical offering than my latest stuff and is called The Eternal Light of Will. Thanks for reading and, in advance, for listening and advice. Click this direct link:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=662928&songID=6190630
Hope you can hear the passion I put into it, regardless of the less than perfect production.
dreamer7