[kj] O/T Techology help

[Brian Whitehead]

Robert,

You should get in touch with KJ they surely could do with your help.
What can you do with Hosannas? Seriously, could you make it a bit less
murky, you'd need the original masters I guess for that.

Brian.

PS I quite like the bit about the "exciter", please tell me more.

On 08/07/06, Robert Cashour <rcashour at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>  on 7/7/06 3:02 PM, Papa Lazarou at circuit_bender at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>  I am not sure you can in Roxio, unless there is something in the sound
> editor.. There is an equal loudness function in sonic, but i'll go with what
> was earlier said, and suggest normalizing the tracks in a wave editor first.
>
> You can normalize a track all you want, but you may still have trouble
> matching levels so it sounds equally loud to your ears. It's all about two
> things a) production and b) mastering
>
> That's why you're never going to get an early KJ recording to sound as
> 'loud' as KJ03', for example, without the right tools, and even then it may
> not match. One thing I do with older tracks off of casette (for example) in
> Logic is to put them through a battery of plug-ins after I normalize. I
> usually insert a compressor at around 4:1 ratio, an exciter (or two) to
> enhance low-end and high frequencies, and the master seven-channel eq to
> push some frequencies louder.
>
> After I get that sounding good, I insert the Master Compressor, the
> Adaptive Limiter, and maybe that second exciter on the output channels. I
> then bounce it to a .wav file for use in iTunes. I've gotten stuff to sound
> drastically different and much better/louder after using these techniques.
> Unfortunately, this equipment isn't affordable for everyone, and not
> everyone is a sound engineer like I am either.
>
>
> *Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com>* wrote:
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>
> Seeing as its quite I'll get this in now.
>
> Totally off topic
>
> I seem to remember this being asked some time ago.
>
>
>
> When I'm making a compilation CD on the PC (I use Roxio) with different
> CDs having different levels, one track is very lound and the next quiet in
> comparison.
>
> How do I level them out?
>
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