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Finished Editing Concert

I’ve just now finished editing the Jiig/Nightingale concert which I field recorded for broadcast on my radio show.

Wow, I had no idea how long it was going to take to make that concert sound OK. The room was very echoey and boomy, and cancelling that out was extremely challenging, especially without making the vocalists sound gutless. The problem is that the room was over-reverberent in several narrow bands that unfortunately lay within Ian’s voice.

Listening to Jiig now and quite enjoying it, so I hope the band will like it.

I have one concert left in the can, my “experimental” concert that I recorded at Rasputin’s the night before the National Library gig. I think that one may have lower potential to be great, but will be easier to get into the “best I can do” state.

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	programs what program is it you are using to edit? at 2006-1-27 08:12 by Trevor


	re: programs I have a funny setup that includes several pieces of software throughout the process. I captured audio in mid-side format through the simple Audio Hijack Pro application (which, as an aside, kicks ass in terms of being able to record not just incoming audio, but also anything that any program is producing including audio feeds through the browser and stuff) I did the heavy lifting and EQing with a copy of Cubase LE (came with my firewire audio interface -- a Firebox). I have used Protools and prefer it, but this is what I had to work with under OS X. I used Cubase's built-in channel EQs, but also used the free graphic equalizer plugin called LPGEQ2.1. I made use of the spectrum analyzer plugin called Fre(a)koscope to see what was going on. Finally, I exported the mixdown to aiff and used Audacity to create a label track with all the index marks I wanted for the CD, then exported "Multiple" to break the 75 minute track up. Lastly I'll burn the whole shebang to CD with an old copy of Toast Titanium. Phew. at 2006-1-27 10:38 by cmh

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