OK, one last take. This one tries a little harder to keep the punch, backs off on the reverb and compression, and also tries harder to limit/level the bass so there aren't places where the mid-bass suddenly booms right through the mix. It also brings the loudness up a bit more to match typical contemporary music, though I tried not to overdo it. http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/lahar/foie-A-test3.ogg http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/lahar/ginseng-A-test3.ogg Unfortunately with the multiband compression bringing some of the treble detail more forward, it's clear the original instrumental tracks have clipping in places (or some clipping happened somewhere in mixdown). I think that's where the clicking in the sax and some of the guitar in Foie is coming from, and in most of the second half of Ginseng the snare is very buzzy/distorted as if clipped. It's like that in the track before I started messing with it, just much less noticable. This is mostly for my own amusement, I haven't gotten to do any armchair mastering in a long time :-) I know it's not particularly 'pro'. And I''m too in love with reverb. (I'll take the tracks down in a day or two. Or immediately if Ken prefers.) Cheers, Monty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
