Solved Wish You Were Here - LoFi?

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I figured it would be easy to get the same lo-fi sound Pink Floyd got on the 12-string to Wish You Were Here. But I can't seem to get it right.

I tried EQ, and I could get a good telephone-like effect, and I also tried using Izotope Vinyl which actually worked pretty good as an EQ once removing the fake vinyl noises from it, but it still just doesn't sound the same.

I uploaded a short guitar part playing the intro riff and I'm wondering if someone can mess with it and give me some advice on how to achieve this particular sound.

You can download the WAV or MP3. Right-click and "Save Target As..."

WAV: http://www.dannydotguitar.com/hr/wywh.wav
MP3:

Original clip:
 
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Dan,

I just gave the MP3 a quick listen, I'll look at it in more detail later as I'm about to walk out the door, but my initial impression was that it sounded a bit warmer (i.e. a richer-sounding mid-bass) than I recall the original having. Also, after skimming off a little bass, perhaps try just a tad of compression to tighten up the dynamics between the picking and the strumming. But that's just me going on memory for now, I might be off; I haven't actually listened to the original in God knows how long. Also, I don't remember if the original had any verb on it or not.

G.
 
Thanks Glenn. This is a raw track without the FX applied (except I did a slight cut ~220Hz cause it was sounding kind of boomy).

I'll rip Pink Floyd's version off my CD and upload a clip of the original part so you (and everyone) can hear what I'm going for.
 
Yeah that sounds good Benny. Mind sharing what you set on the EQ?
 
Benny sounds a lot better (more towards the original). I think now the second guitar comes in on a regular setting with out the eq like the first guitar if I remember the song.
 
DAS19 said:
Benny sounds a lot better (more towards the original). I think now the second guitar comes in on a regular setting with out the eq like the first guitar if I remember the song.
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Yeah the little lead guitar that comes in at the beginning sounds normal, I think it's just the intro guitar that has this effect.
 
well I did it in kind of a round about way but, basically I took out everything below 200Hz and above 5kHz.

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The top one was the EQ setting I used with the first plugin. This one I just played around with for a bit. The sound wasn't quite there though...I still had a lot of the attack of the body in it. So I added another EQ and decided to try the "telephone" preset on it. Which surprisingly turned out pretty well. Simple too :)

Neither plugin by itself got it quite there, though (if you were wondering). I think the first plugin got me to the balanced tone I needed and the telephone effect gave it that lo-fi quality.
 
Thanks benny :D

I wish Reaper's EQ came with presets like Audition's had a good telephone one, but the screenshots will help a bunch. :cool:
 
I was thinking that recording the track playing through headphones might simulate that "old radio" sound?

If anything, you're mic will look cool wearing some iPod earbuds. ;)
 
mwthompson said:
I was thinking that recording the track playing through headphones might simulate that "old radio" sound?

If anything, you're mic will look cool wearing some iPod earbuds. ;)
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Yeah that's a creative way to get that sound.

I had also tried sampling down to 8000Hz, mono, 8-bit, but it still didn't sound "bad" enough. That's actually not a bad idea though.
 
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