Chris, what a fantastic job you did in fixing the presentation of Brad's song!
Congratulations!  I just listened to it.  It is so clear, loud, and
beautiful.  You and Brad and the Lord make a great team.  smile

Helen

At 08:29 PM 12/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Guys.
>
>phil, if you want it let me know...  i've noticed a few people have written
>me off list and said that Brad's track was really soft...  Could I try to
>fix it...  Well?  Gladly!  i did.  i added some normalization, and some E Q
>as well...  By this I mean:  there was far wayyyyy! to much mid range
>frequency, so I cut some of it out, then i also boosted up the low
>frequencies.  Then, I ran the track through my hardware quad4 effect
>processor which has a killer! and believe me, I mean! killer! dynamic
>condenser compresser in it so, needless to say:  my! gosh!  I have never!
>thought that his track could sound so good!  i re encoded it to 192 kbs
>stereo 16 bit 44100 hz.  it's an mp3 of corse...  o, one last thing:  Once
>all was processed, I ran it to my minidisk recorder, and got the mix
>recorded.  Then, i used the AB erase function on the recorder and cropped
>the track so that the little bit of mike/tape hiss at the beginning before
>he starts is gone, now it's cut down to literally the tenth! of a frame
>where he starts playing.  Then, i also did the same at the end of the
>track...  Then, noticed that because of that, it got cut off very cold, so I
>faded out the last half a second of the track, thus giving a ver'r'ry smooth
>leadout.  once the final mix was done, then I ran it back! through my board
>again, my hardware mixer that is, back into my sound card, and back to sound
>forge.  Then rerecorded it, and Boom!  A complete masterpiece!  if any of
>you all want this improvement, let me know and i'll send it to ya...
>
>
>Chris.
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>have a wonderful day!