Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by GuitarRiffs » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:39 am

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by Trebor » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:39 am

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) ...
Raw(1)-Remix, before-after.mp3
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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by kozikowski » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:47 am

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

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by Trebor » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:10 am

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" ]

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by kozikowski » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:58 am

Mine came down as:
unedited_raw_live_128kb.mp3

I think I see. There are more files up there now, hence the 01.

My original clip shows the same frequency analysis as before, but boom is gone.

Twilight Zone Moment.

I don't equalize anything in the speaker pathway. What the [email protected]#$.

Maybe my bass cabinet is no more. I'll look when the sun comes up and I can see what I'm doing. The main speakers are terrific, but they don't have good action down where pipe organs live -- or that thick, heavy string on a Bass. Koz

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by kozikowski » Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:00 am

Past the bass oddity, your versions blows mine out of the water. Koz

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by kozikowski » Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:53 am

Remember GR is going to ask you for specific curves, XMLs, settings and options of everything you did. Keep notes. Koz

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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by Trebor » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:24 am

Here's the steps for GuitarRiff, (or just download the remix I prepared earlier form here).

1. Equalization ...
Equalization.gif
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2. Dynamic range Compression using Steve's limiter ...
Steve's limiter (extreme values).gif
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3. Adjust stereo image by mixing in mono duplicates of the stereo track, (by now EQed and compressed) ...
Adjust stereo image with mono duplicates.gif
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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by Trebor » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:26 am

4. Apply chorus (10ms delay) to the stereo track only ...
Chorus (delay) settings.gif
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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 ...
before-after ROCK dynamic-range-compression.gif
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Re: Can you help me EQ/process my live MP3 recording?

Post by GuitarRiffs » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:17 pm

Trebor,
You rule. Thank you for this!! Thank both of you for your time.
For the full lesson, I will now try to recreate your steps,
Thanks for also posting the full mp3, if I can't get this working on my own.

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