LIVE-to-FULL???

[PRiZ-one]

I got these beautifull sounds on this live recording of an artist I wanna use, but the problem is... It sounds sorta flat, since it's live.
I've tried using EQ etc to some extent, but it doesn't seem to take this recording where I want. I want it to sound full, I also try'd to solve my problem by getting the unlive version, and it didn't have near as good sounds, like he was using a different instrument or soemthing almost.

Any suggestions how I could make this sound more thick and not so thin...??? Mayby one of those magic plug-ins or something.

I'd really like to get this to sound the best I can, I havn't heard anything so nice in lmy life, mayby the acoustics where blessed while in concert where ever it was. Thanks! peace!

Also I was thinking "Parametric EQ" might help, what does this do? It seems to make it sound abit better, but I'm not sure what it's doing exactly.

Also a notch filter, where do I get one of these, It also seem slike soemthing to solve my problem.

 

[BrettB]

First, tell us what equipment you used/how many track/lots of interference or overtalk?

If you used a computer based setting, like pro tools or cakewalk or cool edit or wathever, you have plug in's of parametric eq's en notches, but there mostly standard also. If you usee a bigger studio there's hardware stuff.

A parametric equaliser is just an eq where you can chose the exact frequency you want to boost or cut, the dB's you want to add or cutt there, and the 'Q-factor', that's how much the frequencies around your chosen one will be effected. The higher Q, the less frequencies will be effected, iff the Q is low, the eq will effect the other freq's round the chosen one, like a bell (if you can understand my explanation, 'cause English is not my first language). A notch filter is just an EQ that cuts a frequency away from the instrument, the Q is on it's maximum. That's often used to cutt away awkward noises in your mix.

good EQing may help your mix (like shelving up your snare drum gives you more snares, boosting at the right freq between 100 en 200Hz gives you more attack on the snare, and so one...) but you gotta listen very well and have a trained ear. Don't forget you can't boost freq that aren't there, you'll only add noise.

Did you consider extra overdubs and did you use any effect material?

 

[Meshuggah]

Run it through Waves Ultramaximizer... Everything sounds good after that..

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo First Pris:

A while back a good musician and friend of mine gave me a cassette of a concert he did with a small band and a singer. I played the tape and whoever did the "professional" mixing left it very flat -- clear but flat -- no ambience.

Sooooo, I ran some of the songs on the cassette into my MD8 and re-recorded them adding some reverb.

The singer who paid for the processing loved it. My friend loved the reproductions. Guess I got lucky. You might try something like this and see what happens.

Green Hornet



PS Remember I could not control any individual tracks; but the addition of the effects helped the WHOLE thing. GH

 

[PRiZ-one]

Thanks!

I've been messin a while now, and figure I'll just add some EQ and boost the bass, I'll do what I can to it later if I have moreknowledge, it doesn't sound horrible the way it is.
I'll double it up and it should be good enuff, once I get the drums over top it wont even matter too much.