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Recovering not so well mastered retail CDs
Is there a way to get the audio files of those not well mastered CDs
into your DAW, tweak them with EQ etc, and get rid of the harshness in their sound? For example, I re-discovered an old favorite CD, SuperTramp's Brother Where You Bound. I used to listen to it allot on my cassette made from the CD. Obviously, recording to cassette did allot to qwell it's high end harshness. My cassette deck has long since been retired and I'd like to listen to and enjoy the CD now. When listening, there's that high-midrange sound, I guess you might describe it as some digital filter used in the mastering process that produced allot of audible ringing. I've transferred the audio data to my DAW and I'm ready to fire up Cool Edit to tweak the files. Any suggestions? TIA CD |
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"Codifus" wrote in message ... Is there a way to get the audio files of those not well mastered CDs into your DAW, tweak them with EQ etc, and get rid of the harshness in their sound? For example, I re-discovered an old favorite CD, SuperTramp's Brother Where You Bound. I used to listen to it allot on my cassette made from the CD. Obviously, recording to cassette did allot to qwell it's high end harshness. My cassette deck has long since been retired and I'd like to listen to and enjoy the CD now. When listening, there's that high-midrange sound, I guess you might describe it as some digital filter used in the mastering process that produced allot of audible ringing. I've transferred the audio data to my DAW and I'm ready to fire up Cool Edit to tweak the files. Any suggestions? Fiddle, sure. Maybe it will satisfy you more to send it out thru a cassette loop ! It could be that you a just accustomed to heaing the 'filtered' vesion. However, many of the early digital recodings were somewhat harsh and glary, probably due to the poor anti-alias filtering. I don't think tonal correction can fix this. I also have BWYB (plus ALL other supertramp CDs and most of the LPs) geoff PS - Two words ; " a lot". |
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Geoff Wood wrote:
"Codifus" wrote in message ... Is there a way to get the audio files of those not well mastered CDs into your DAW, tweak them with EQ etc, and get rid of the harshness in their sound? For example, I re-discovered an old favorite CD, SuperTramp's Brother Where You Bound. I used to listen to it allot on my cassette made from the CD. Obviously, recording to cassette did allot to qwell it's high end harshness. My cassette deck has long since been retired and I'd like to listen to and enjoy the CD now. When listening, there's that high-midrange sound, I guess you might describe it as some digital filter used in the mastering process that produced allot of audible ringing. I've transferred the audio data to my DAW and I'm ready to fire up Cool Edit to tweak the files. Any suggestions? Fiddle, sure. Maybe it will satisfy you more to send it out thru a cassette loop ! It could be that you a just accustomed to heaing the 'filtered' vesion. However, many of the early digital recodings were somewhat harsh and glary, probably due to the poor anti-alias filtering. I don't think tonal correction can fix this. I also have BWYB (plus ALL other supertramp CDs and most of the LPs) geoff PS - Two words ; " a lot". It would be nice if BWYB was released on vinyl. That's a shame, really. CD |
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"Codifus" wrote in message
Is there a way to get the audio files of those not well mastered CDs into your DAW, tweak them with EQ etc, and get rid of the harshness in their sound? To some degree. For example, I re-discovered an old favorite CD, SuperTramp's Brother Where You Bound. I used to listen to it allot on my cassette made from the CD. Obviously, recording to cassette did allot to qwell it's high end harshness. My cassette deck has long since been retired and I'd like to listen to and enjoy the CD now. When listening, there's that high-midrange sound, I guess you might describe it as some digital filter used in the mastering process that produced allot of audible ringing. So fire up one of the graphic equalizers in CoolEdit and put a dip where there is now a peak in the high-midrange sound. Or better yet, use a parametric and tune its frequency, Q, and amplitude until things sound better? I've transferred the audio data to my DAW and I'm ready to fire up Cool Edit to tweak the files. Any suggestions? First, learn about the connection between certain kinds of equalization and certain sounds. You might start out with CE's simplest equalizer, and just adjust the sliders and see which kinds of audible changes the various bands make. As your ears and fingers get more and more in synch, progress to the other equalizers that have more sliders. |
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"Codifus" wrote in message It would be nice if BWYB was released on vinyl. That's a shame, really. CD I'm sure that I have it on vinyl (somewhere in a carton in my garage) and CD. geoff |
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