Clean it up!

[Reece Hanrahan]

Hello there, new to the forums.
Basically hoping that someone can help me clean up an audio file.
It's a recording of my band playing a live set that was recorded straight from the mixing desk.
Unfortunately the quality of it is less than glamorous.
If anyone could have a tinker with it and give it some more life that would be brilliant.
The main issue is that the guitar is way too low in the mix, it needs to be a stronger element.
Also just needs some general depth (maybe some reverb etc.), it sounds rather flat at the moment.
Anything that can be done is appreciated a lot.
Thanks in advance!

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[Reece Hanrahan]

Sorry that I have to put the URL like that because I'm new...

 

[elbandito]

Did you also have to copy+paste double post this in two sub-forums because you're new?

 

[Ben Linus]

the cleaning process should be done in the mixing...so the mastering engineer has much more space too work with

 

[Massive Master]

I've not listened -- But keep in mind that generally EVERY "off the board" recording woefully sucks in an absolutely horrific manner. What's going through the board very rarely resembles what's coming out of the system (due to layers of crossovers & compression) and hardly ever has anything to do with what's in the space (short of 10,000-ish seat and larger spaces where stage volume doesn't really dictate what's going to the system).

If you want "live" recordings in smaller venues, use room mics -- Perhaps pull the console feed also (I've done a few tweaks where the console feed, time-aligned with the room mics, made some decent sounding recordings).

The other option is maul-the-band (multi-band) compression ---- If you know the crossover frequencies of the system, you can use those points in the MBC and be able to at least come closer to what was coming out of the system. That said, again, in a smaller space, that rarely has an awful lot to do with what was happening on the stage. You generally get drum & vocal mixes with really thin and "hairy" sounding guitars buried in the back somewhere.