Klas, you wrote regarding your great track:
http://www.telinga.com/gallery/dumetorum.mp3
> > >Dan, if you should remake the Blyth's Warbler into a commercial CD
> > >for car and small home stereos and so on - what would you do with it?
followed by
>How would such a recording be best post.processed, to sound good both
>in a car stereo, a flatbed television and a small radio in the kitchen?
>And in my headphones....
>
>I have no good experience of just simple freq. correction. The sound
>gets dead and boring. I am more thinking of some kind of compressor,
>which - in a fitting way - would level out a bit of the dynamic
>range, making gentle parts stay the same, while "intrusive" parts get
>softer. Such things.
OK, how would I master it.
First I'd watch an analyzer for a while to get an idea about whether
certain frequencies coincide with the "hot" bits. If so I'd try some
narrow-band EQ notching on the frequencies that peak. Only if it
sounds good.
The recording is very clean! Next thing I'd mash the level of the
peaks a few dB (maybe 6?) with a fast look-ahead mastering limiter
like Waves L1.
I'd use a convolution reverb to recreate a forest meadow
reverberation effect, just a little. I'd try driving the reverb from
the pre-limited signal to keep the natual loudness of the peaks while
reducing their actual level. Only if it sounds good.
Finally I might "perfume" it with a woodland ambience--just a subtle
sigh of wind in trees or distant water--to "ground" it from its
clinical isolation--figure and ground.
Just brainstorming.
-Dan Dugan
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