Stuart Welwood
Active member
- Genre
- Rock
- Effects
- Fat Channel, Limiter, several meters
Storm Dancing is the title track to a CD that I put together in 1999. It turned out that the CD had an overall bassy feel to it. Comments were that it lacked presence, which it surely did. There were other problems, too. Each track had it's own unique ills.
This the first, and probably the easiest, of several tracks that I want to salvage from that CD by using Studio One. I would be grateful for any comments on the result.
The problem with the original Storm Dancing was that it dragged in tempo and was somewhat sparse in the quieter parts. After speeding it up and adding some more sound effects with my old setup, it was okay, but still didn't have the impact that I wanted. So I took a rip of the track and used S1 to make a sort of premaster.
I used the Presonus Fat Channel plugin to provide some compression and EQ, followed by a small amount of limiting. Then after processing the mixdown with the loudness adjusted for SoundCloud and publishing it, here it is.
The guitars were originally recorded on a Roland VS-880 using a Gibson SG through an ADA MP-1 MIDI tube preamp. The rest came from a Korg M1, Roland R-8 drum machine, and a Godin ACS with a Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer. MIDI parts were recorded and programmed using CW9 on Win 98 and synced with the VS-880. Good riddance!
Monitoring System
McIntosh C42 Audio Control Center
dbx DriveRack 260 digital crossover, system EQ, and time alignment
Altec Lansing 9441A power amp for highs
Alesis RA300 power amp for lows
Modified Altec Lansing 1205B speakers with 511B horns and 421 woofers
The system was calibrated 5 years ago to +/-1 dB from 25 Hz to 16 kHz at the listening position. It could use a recalibration but I like the sound now, and I'm afraid that I might lose my listening reference if I change anything. The crossover is set to 943 Hz.
This the first, and probably the easiest, of several tracks that I want to salvage from that CD by using Studio One. I would be grateful for any comments on the result.
The problem with the original Storm Dancing was that it dragged in tempo and was somewhat sparse in the quieter parts. After speeding it up and adding some more sound effects with my old setup, it was okay, but still didn't have the impact that I wanted. So I took a rip of the track and used S1 to make a sort of premaster.
I used the Presonus Fat Channel plugin to provide some compression and EQ, followed by a small amount of limiting. Then after processing the mixdown with the loudness adjusted for SoundCloud and publishing it, here it is.
The guitars were originally recorded on a Roland VS-880 using a Gibson SG through an ADA MP-1 MIDI tube preamp. The rest came from a Korg M1, Roland R-8 drum machine, and a Godin ACS with a Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer. MIDI parts were recorded and programmed using CW9 on Win 98 and synced with the VS-880. Good riddance!
Monitoring System
McIntosh C42 Audio Control Center
dbx DriveRack 260 digital crossover, system EQ, and time alignment
Altec Lansing 9441A power amp for highs
Alesis RA300 power amp for lows
Modified Altec Lansing 1205B speakers with 511B horns and 421 woofers
The system was calibrated 5 years ago to +/-1 dB from 25 Hz to 16 kHz at the listening position. It could use a recalibration but I like the sound now, and I'm afraid that I might lose my listening reference if I change anything. The crossover is set to 943 Hz.
John B