On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 07:48:04PM +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote: > On 21/10/11 10:29 AM, S. Massy wrote: > >I very much like the mood of this piece, and, as someone else said, it > >could be longer... Unfortunately, there are a lot of issues with high > >frequencies to my ears caused by all the sweeping filters and the drum > >processing which makes it grating and spoils the mood. :( Hopefully, > >it's just some idiosyncrasy of my hardware or wetware (ears) and others > >will not be affected, because this piece is otherwise very good. > > > > Thanks for the feedback -- the glitchyness of the drums is > deliberate, of course, but I wonder if there's a way to smooth out > the higher frequencies a bit. I've heard people say that bouncing to > some good quality tape has various magical qualities, including > smoothing out high frequency transients in general, but I tend to be > suspicious of such claims :) I've heard similar claims, among others, that bouncing to a high quality VHS tape (using a quality VCR, obviously) can do wonders. My guess is it has something to do with gentle, non-linear, natural compression occuring at that stage, but other, more knowledgeable people probably could elucidate this better than I could. > > I may revisit this mix in a while; if I do, I'll see what I can do > with some EQ to smooth things out. Definitely let us know when you do. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
