Atte, First off, let me say these things: A) I listen to rock most often, seldom to to jazz, so I really don't have the right ears for this. :-) B) I'm not an experienced sound engineer by any stretch of the imagination. I've been doing a bit of live sound work for some music groups at my church, but that's really the extent of my experience. C) I think the music does sound very good as it stands. Excellent performance, thanks for sharing it. That said, my feeling on the track is I hear too much of the room, and not enough direct sound from the instruments. My first inclination is that could be a rock listening vs. jazz listening thing. But your description seems to say to me you want something similar. Your question was about mastering, but I'm thinking getting your mics a bit closer to the instruments to start with might add a bit more definition and presence, like you're looking for. It might be worth trying, anyway, if you get another chance to record. Doesn't help much on a session that's already "in the can." --> Steve Wahl On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:42:24PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote: > Hi > > I have the following track: > > http://www.atte.dk/at_slum_avenue.ogg > > It's a recording of one of my tunes with my jazz quartet. The recording > quality leaves a bit to be desired. I hope some of you mastering gurus > would lend an ear, explain what you think should be done and in what > program, maybe someone could even find the time to generate an improved > file. At least I hope to learn a bit about digital audio and mastering > along the way. > > A few notes: > > A valid question would be "but how do you want it to sound?". Well, good > :-) At least I think it needs more high frequencies, more definition and > more presence. > > Needless to say, I'm on a linux-only system, so any tools should be > linux stuff, but you probl. guessed that :-) > > -- > peace, love & harmony > Atte > > http://www.atte.dk -- Steve Wahl steve@xxxxxxxxxx "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." -- Vance Petree, Virginia Power
