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agree. that's the point. feeding a better signal to your DAW. always there's room for improvement, even at home. 2009/6/4, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>: > There was music before computers? :) > Really I am thinking that I need to work on improving the audio I am >feeding > into my DAW. Unless I can find a turd polishing plugin :) > If I have a boomy sound why not fix it before recording etc and so on. I >am > still trying to grasp audio mastering but I get so confused...slowly I >go. > > thanks for all the fish, > > Jeff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Sottilaro" <zerocrossing@gmail.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:52 PM > Subject: Re: mastering plug ins > > >> You know, you can spend a lot of time and energy on the mastering >> project, but I swear some of the best armature mixes I've heard came >> from a guitarist I used to play with. All he did was run his master >> buss though a light compressor, graphic EQ and a DBX exciter. (all >> hardware, this was pre-computer daw). One day I caught him in the >> process and what he did was first run a song with a similar feel >> though the setup and look at the display on the graphic EQ while in >> bypass. He then ran his program though it and tried to use the eq to >> get the same look in the audio spectrum. Hilarious. He admitted he >> just used this method as a starting point, but the real truth is, in >> the end he probably really good at listening. I suspect the spectrum >> display was probably more of a placebo than anything else. He was >> only doing 4 track cassette recordings, but his always sounded great. >> >> > > -- Raul Bonell at Blogger: http://raulbonell.blogspot.com Chain Tape Collective: http://www.ct-collective.com