Astralography
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I recorded a live concert of a group on my 16 track Tascam Reel to Reel, mixed it down into an absolutely amazingly full beautiful sounding master on my half track Tascam 1/4 machine. The band came by and listened to the recording as was blown away. They all wanted a CD of it.
I ran it direct from the reel into a Firepod then through a firewire cable into my Mac computer using Cubase at 24 bit. No eq, no compression. I had to lower the input sound level on the computer so it would not distort. It transferred fine. When I played it back it lost 10 DB. If I jacked it up 10 DB in Cubase, it completely distorted. If I just raised the volume, on my board the bass was mostly gone. The digital version sounds like garbage compared to the analog master.
Now if I started adding low end eq, I could get the bass back, but I would then start to lose other things like some of the keyboard clarity. It becomes the cat and mouse game. I feel like I need to add compression, then expand the file in gain.. do some eq stuff etc. All this processing to try and get it to sound like it was before I transferred it.
Can I say I hate digital recording?
I'm pretty shocked at how poorly digital music transfers from the analog world.
Are there any tricks or shortcuts on getting things to sound good when transferring?
Anyone else have similar frustrations?
I ran it direct from the reel into a Firepod then through a firewire cable into my Mac computer using Cubase at 24 bit. No eq, no compression. I had to lower the input sound level on the computer so it would not distort. It transferred fine. When I played it back it lost 10 DB. If I jacked it up 10 DB in Cubase, it completely distorted. If I just raised the volume, on my board the bass was mostly gone. The digital version sounds like garbage compared to the analog master.
Now if I started adding low end eq, I could get the bass back, but I would then start to lose other things like some of the keyboard clarity. It becomes the cat and mouse game. I feel like I need to add compression, then expand the file in gain.. do some eq stuff etc. All this processing to try and get it to sound like it was before I transferred it.
Can I say I hate digital recording?
I'm pretty shocked at how poorly digital music transfers from the analog world.
Are there any tricks or shortcuts on getting things to sound good when transferring?
Anyone else have similar frustrations?