I have been passed along an informal tape of a concert performed by a well-known singer (by some at least -- if you know her work, you'll know immediately who it is). Without going into the backstage details, she's aware that the tape was made (not by me, but I've volunteered to try to do some work on it), and that someone is working on it. Again, without going into all of the back story, it's farily likely that she won't record again -- I could be surprised but it took her 19 years between studio recorded albums.....
It's vocal, female obviously, with piano only. Cabaret setting - 186 seats (if you want to see the entire audio setup, you can look at this link: http://www.therrazzroom.com/Venue.html.
I have included some clips you can find at
http://sites.google.com/site/homerecordingmixhelp/
then look for the one page link on the side that says Downloads for Home Recording Readers
(i couldn't figure out a way to post audio clips on this site, sorry)
This concert was taped with a tiny little recorder so I'm told, but all in all, it could be much worse. The clips include a snippet of Bacharach's Anyone Who Has a Heart, and two snippets from a Bacharach medley which includes Alfie -- the first clips has fire engines going by, and the second has coughing.
Over all, the tape like i said is surprisingly good -- it seems a bit bright/harsh, you've got your usual things to contend with (fire engines, chairs moving, very loud applause, people coughing). And with the recording device, I have one track with which to work.
I'm a great self-teacher, and I read through a lot of the posts on here, and I read through an Adobe Audition book which was okay but without any real 'advice" in it. If anyone would be so kind to share an appropriate workflow for a recording such as this, suggest any appropriate (free) plugins for Audition, and offer any thoughts on e.g., how to get rid of sirens, and bad noise or eliminate it as much as possible.
It might be helpful to know that when she was recording, Michael DeLugg engineered much of her work (Delugg, aside from this vocalist, is best known for engineering a good majority of the Barry Manilow albums -- despite what you think about Barry (and I think most secretly like him), Delugg gave all of those albums a particular sound which worked so well. Similarly, his work gave the vocalist on these clips some real space around her voice, and there are a good handful of her songs and their work which I still consider some of the finest pop songs ever recorded. On the other hand, producers like Michael Masser suffocated her in wildly orchestrated songs, and with him and others there just wasn't the life in her singing that her oft-time producer and Delugg did. The album 20 years later was produced by Steve Addabbo (Suzanne Vega fame), and while much different that the delugg sound, gorgeously produced.
All of this is mainly to see if a CD could be pulled out of this recording, flaws and all, that is, a CD for the artist to sell or MP3 download to generate some # as she made milllions for Columbia but never made a dime of royalties.
On a separate subject, I also included in the link above a snippet of someone who has posted on youtube his remastering a number of the quadraphonic releases of songs by the Carpenters, and they are wonderful. You can find t them all on youtube, and he uses Audition for his work. Any ideas about his process in making these quad mixes sound so terrific?
Apologies for this being so long, but i thought more detail than less would be better. (P.S. I have nothing to gain by any of th is, it's all just pro bono effort. My Audition edition is 3.0.
Thanks very much.
It's vocal, female obviously, with piano only. Cabaret setting - 186 seats (if you want to see the entire audio setup, you can look at this link: http://www.therrazzroom.com/Venue.html.
I have included some clips you can find at
http://sites.google.com/site/homerecordingmixhelp/
then look for the one page link on the side that says Downloads for Home Recording Readers
(i couldn't figure out a way to post audio clips on this site, sorry)
This concert was taped with a tiny little recorder so I'm told, but all in all, it could be much worse. The clips include a snippet of Bacharach's Anyone Who Has a Heart, and two snippets from a Bacharach medley which includes Alfie -- the first clips has fire engines going by, and the second has coughing.
Over all, the tape like i said is surprisingly good -- it seems a bit bright/harsh, you've got your usual things to contend with (fire engines, chairs moving, very loud applause, people coughing). And with the recording device, I have one track with which to work.
I'm a great self-teacher, and I read through a lot of the posts on here, and I read through an Adobe Audition book which was okay but without any real 'advice" in it. If anyone would be so kind to share an appropriate workflow for a recording such as this, suggest any appropriate (free) plugins for Audition, and offer any thoughts on e.g., how to get rid of sirens, and bad noise or eliminate it as much as possible.
It might be helpful to know that when she was recording, Michael DeLugg engineered much of her work (Delugg, aside from this vocalist, is best known for engineering a good majority of the Barry Manilow albums -- despite what you think about Barry (and I think most secretly like him), Delugg gave all of those albums a particular sound which worked so well. Similarly, his work gave the vocalist on these clips some real space around her voice, and there are a good handful of her songs and their work which I still consider some of the finest pop songs ever recorded. On the other hand, producers like Michael Masser suffocated her in wildly orchestrated songs, and with him and others there just wasn't the life in her singing that her oft-time producer and Delugg did. The album 20 years later was produced by Steve Addabbo (Suzanne Vega fame), and while much different that the delugg sound, gorgeously produced.
All of this is mainly to see if a CD could be pulled out of this recording, flaws and all, that is, a CD for the artist to sell or MP3 download to generate some # as she made milllions for Columbia but never made a dime of royalties.
On a separate subject, I also included in the link above a snippet of someone who has posted on youtube his remastering a number of the quadraphonic releases of songs by the Carpenters, and they are wonderful. You can find t them all on youtube, and he uses Audition for his work. Any ideas about his process in making these quad mixes sound so terrific?
Apologies for this being so long, but i thought more detail than less would be better. (P.S. I have nothing to gain by any of th is, it's all just pro bono effort. My Audition edition is 3.0.
Thanks very much.