At 18:34 2007-04-13, you wrote:
>Klas, you wrote regarding your great track:
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>http://www.telinga.com/gallery/dumetorum.mp3
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> > > >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 i=
t?
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>followed by
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> >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.
Got it.
>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.
yes!
>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.
I would love that "perfume".
My son claims he is a master on WaveLab and he has the L1. I will
show him your "brainstorm" and see what he can do.
>Just brainstorming.
Just what I need.
Thanks
Klas.
>-Dan Dugan
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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