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To practice a little, I will apply each of your edits one at a time, and make sure I can hear their impact. After listening to Steve's remix maybe my remix is a bit too mono. If you vary the ratio from -6dB stereo / -12dB mono to say -4/-14 the result will be less-mono more-stereo. As I mentioned i...

... channel mixer plug-in. In defence of my mono-stereo control method as described above, it has an advantage over plug-in channel mixers in Audacity in that you can adjust the levels while the mix is playing. If Audacity allowed real time adjustmet of effects a mono-stereo mixer plugin would be s...

I don't know how to do Step #3 (stereo/mono copying) 1) How do you set the decibels? You said stereo is set at -6db. How do I do this? The -/+ dB values are those of the level slider on each track ... http://audacityteam.org/onlinehelp-1.2/images/track-label.png 2) ... how to I copy one of the ster...

I'd like to make sense of the principles and rationale behind the steps you took. A1) Yes. Removing the extreme low frequencies (below 30Hz) seems pointless as they aren’t audible but removing them makes the waveform easier to manage. I may have overdone the treble boost a bit (you can cut it back ...

4. Apply chorus (10ms delay) to the stereo track only ... Chorus (delay) settings.gif 5. Final compression with Chris's Compressor on default settings. 6. Modify volume of start and finish to taste with Audacity's envelope tool . Below a comparison of "raw" original and compressed remix .....

Here's the steps for GuitarRiff, (or just download the remix I prepared earlier form here ). 1. Equalization ... Equalization.gif 2. Dynamic range Compression using Steve's limiter ... Steve's limiter (extreme values).gif 3. Adjust stereo image by mixing in mono duplicates of the stereo track, (by n...

kozikowski wrote:Your "before" doesn't have the same honky, peaky bass boom that mine did. Did you get that from the same posting? Koz

I got it from the link in the first post in this thread ...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/81te7swzub1s3nw/WIanrQFczN [ "01 unedited_raw_live_128kb.mp3" ]

GuitarRiffs wrote:Passing this MP3 through an EQ app to fatten up the sound may do wonders? (Compress? EQ? The standard bag of tricks?)

Attached before-after excerpt : equalised , compressed (using Steve's limiter) and fattened (using chorus, 10ms delay) ...

GuitarRiffs wrote:Can someone refer me to an app that I can edit the mp3's EQ on?

There are audio editors specifically for mp3, but their features are very limited ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 28#p195228

However your mp3 can be processed in Audacity.

And the frequency analysis of the recording in question is not smooth like the example... smoothness in part depends on the sample size you've chosen on the frequency analysis display ... ''smoothness'' depends on sample size chosen.gif You should compare like with like. http://manual.audacityteam....