Post by jsdyson on Apr 22, 2019 15:23:33 GMT
Was in the middle of a discussion about some kind of processing matter, and needed to produce an example. Just randomly grabbed 'Soldiers' from my collection of leaked DolbyA copies.
Good for my benefit, during the discussions of the sound quality on the processed copy of 'Soldiers', I found ANOTHER bug in the DolbyA decoder -- resolved nicely,
but after all of that, i actually noticed the song instead of the processing.
I found that (in my opinion) the song is really kind of pretty.
Good ole me, I decided to put my non-existent mastering skills to the project -- what can I legitimately do to the song? Can I do something to make it sound more
2000's instead of 1970's?
My original copy is DolbyA compressed, so I can undo that compression -- which gives a very dry sound to the recording. The result wasn't nearly as pretty
as I had hoped. Played around a little (didn't take all that much work), and did the following:
Original -> DolbyA process -> 3 band RMS compression -> small amount of EQ -> time-limit/create mp3 at 320K
EQ choices from the decoded copy:
Bass +1.5dB @120hz/Q=1.0
Bass +1.5dB @360hz/Q=0.707
Treble +3.0dB @6.3kHz/Q=0.707
Treble -3.0dB @12khz/Q=0.707
The results (IMO) sound more current -- less of the AM radio optimized sound...
Also, made a snippet of the Polar CD available to compare.
Cannot make the entire thing available, so I cut it so that it is less than 1/2 of the original (sorry.)
Please, please enjoy. I'll keep this online for a week or so.
I think that IF (big if) I was allowed to remaster some albums -- could probably make them sound more 'current' --
I do have some proprietary software just going on the market. The new decoder is the only way to get the
velvety clean sound -- old DolbyA is kind of grainy. Oh well -- I'd be willing to do it for free :-).
John