On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > I have an old track that needs brightened up a bit. It was recorded > on a mixing board cassette deck (I said it was old, didn't I ?), a > direct feed I think, and the sound quality is, shall we say, > unlovely. > > So how do I deal with such material ? Is an exciter useful in this > scenario ? Or ... ? It needs quite a bit of EQ, but there are some other issues. * Did you try and adjust the head azimuth of the casestte player ? It could make a huge difference. * The file seems to be 'perfect mono' which makes me suspect it was mixed to mono after playback - I can't imagine a recording damaged like this one producing two exactly equal tracks even if the original was mono. In that case it could help to have the L and R outputs of the player separately. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
