Looking For Space......and mixing advice

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This is a long past forgotten recording that my oldest daughter and I had recorded in 1990.

https://app.box.com/s/jggudxg9jgruw9guitfb

I'd like to add a bass guitar and perhaps some strings to it and do a total remix before I burn a CD of it and give her the CD as Christmas gift.

My question is.....is there something that I should do to clean up the original recording or just leave it as it is before I add to it?

Her vocal seems OK. My guitar playing...perhaps not so OK.
 
I forgot to mention that I recorded that with an old Shure mic and a Radio Shack 2 track tape recorder.

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I would just bring the guitar down just a bit then add the strings and bass so as the total music mix isn't over riding the vocal track ... But let's see how it sounds once you put those tracks in then talk more.
 
Do you two discrete tracks or is it a stereo mixed recording? Either way I think it would be easy to drop in more instruments, even backing vocals if you wanted to take it that far. A piece of cake. She does have a nice voice.
 
Hey Randy
I just listened on my lappy thru my old interface(long story, I've messed up!) & thru buds.
The gtrs sound really good but the vocals are very sharp (treble i mean!), she does have a very nice voice but ATM it attacks my ears!
It would be great to hear strings & bass building it, a lovely xmas pressie! :)
 
I love the analog sound, it's a nice song too by the way and good performance.

I would probably use some mid/side EQ and on the sides to take out some of the boomyness so were talking around 150-300Hz in the side channels only, I think that would help to fix it and also give it a bit more presence without the guitars getting in the way, maybe a 27kHz boost too to make it less boomy overall and give it a nice sheen. That's what I would do if I was mastering it
 
Nice song, good guitars but there are some very aggressive/stridant parts in the vocal that need to be tamed with EQ if they haven't clipped. Some rounding out of the vocal would be nice - though it may not be necessary once EQ'd. I could be vulgar and suggest using a sonic maximizer to round out the voal. It may be awful but it occassionally helps.
bass would be lovely as would som string parts.
 
rayc said:
I could be vulgar and suggest using a sonic maximizer to round out the vocal. It may be awful but it occassionally helps.
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You're not being vulgar.

I take it that you are suggesting that I should make use of a BBE 482 Sonic Maximizer?

I am :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Nobody ever recommends using a BBE.

;)

I own a BBE 482. I'll process the track through the BBE just for shits and giggles and listen.

Who knows. It might make a difference. I'm open minded.

It might also interest you to know that I also own a Aphex 204 Aural Exciter that I have never ever used.

Thanks for listening and the advice.
 
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Track Rat said:
Did you do two discrete tracks or is it a stereo mixed recording? Either way I think it would be easy to drop in more instruments, even backing vocals if you wanted to take it that far. A piece of cake. She does have a nice voice.
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It's a very old stereo track recording. I used a single mic to record it to a two track recorder. All in all.. I think it's not too shabby for a 1990 recording. The guitar tone is what it is and the vocal is what it it is. I can't separate the guitar from the vocal. I was hoping too read some definitive EQ'ing advice. It's perhaps too much to ask for because it's a an old guitar and vocal track. I can understand that.

Another possibility for me to deal with that old track is that I could copy it (two tracks) to Adobe Audition and tweak it.
 
60's guy said:
It's a very old stereo track recording. I used a single mic to record it to a two track recorder. All in all.. I think it's not too shabby for a 1990 recording. The guitar tone is what it is and the vocal is what it it is. I can't separate the guitar from the vocal. I was hoping too read some definitive EQ'ing advice. It's perhaps too much to ask for because it's a an old guitar and vocal track. I can understand that.

Another possibility for me to deal with that old track is that I could copy it (two tracks) to Adobe Audition and tweak it.
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Or you can try to get everything new to sit with it, like go for a low-fi sound.
 
60's guy said:
It's a very old stereo track recording. I used a single mic to record it to a two track recorder. All in all.. I think it's not too shabby for a 1990 recording. The guitar tone is what it is and the vocal is what it it is. I can't separate the guitar from the vocal. I was hoping too read some definitive EQ'ing advice. It's perhaps too much to ask for because it's a an old guitar and vocal track. I can understand that.

Another possibility for me to deal with that old track is that I could copy it (two tracks) to Adobe Audition and tweak it.
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Actually it is possible. I once had a customer come into the studio with a cassette recording he did at a Velvet Underground concert. I took the recording and dumped it to 24 channels (2" tape) of duplicate material and then proceeded to make a channel for each individual instrument and EQed the crap out of it (done on an old Aces console) until I was able to get actual tracks (at least distinguishable) of the individual instruments. Mixed it down and gave it back to the customer who loved it. Took almost a week of effort to do but it is possible.
 
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