> From: Atte Andr? Jensen <atte.jensen@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: magic mastering tips needed > To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4433C940.7050203@xxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > 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 Hi Atte, That is some really terrific jazz! I love it! I really like how it feels like you're in the room with them. I did a spectrum analysis on it and noticed that there was a big hump at about 100 Hz... so I messed around with it for a bit. Here's what I did: EQ: reduced 100Hz (1.0 octave bandwidth) -16dB Compress: 2:1 with a threshold of -20dB Normalize Here's the result: http://www.banjoboy.ms11.net/music/at_slum_avenue2.ogg I don't know if that's closer or farther from what you were looking for, but that's my attempt at helping... ;-) -TimH
