Live Concert Mastering Request

[mateer]

I am looking for someone to help me master an audio track that was taken during a live concert. It was recorded from the video camera's onboard mic. The audio was not overdriven or distorted, there is just not very good separation between the vocals and guitar. I was hoping someone would be interested in helping me clean it up a bit? It's a short set, only about 35-40 minutes.

I had the bands permission, they are a small local hard rock band I am friends with out of Dallas.

Michael

 

[mjbphotos]

One mono track from a video camera mic? All you can do is adjust volume, EQ, maybe compress it a bit (but it probably already has the camera's auto-compression on it).
Mastering comes after mixing, but you've got nothing to mix.

Get 10 posts (over in the thread in the newbies section of the forum) and then share the file so we can listen to it and advise.

 

[rob aylestone]

It's pre-mixed already. Vocals and guitar occupy very similar parts of the spectrum, so if the balance was wrong, then it's permanently wrong. Bass and voice can maybe have a bit of eq treatment, but it might sound thin or boomy - guitar and voice leave you very little fiddle room.

 

[mateer]

That's what I was afraid of. I didn't expect much to be able to be done.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

For future reference the simplest way to get a tolerable live recording is to capture the room sound with a mic from an optimal position (e.g. absolutely dead center between left and right speakers, near the board) plus a line feed from the board and then balance them in post. If anyone recorded from the board there's an outside chance you could blend it with the camera mic.