Have you ever,be honest,downloaded an Mp3 song that you've been after for years,you don't want the album because the artist had say a one hit wonder,and the quality was a bit below par?You find your track,eagerly download it and at 128k/b/s,its missing the feel of it.
What can be done to lift it up?Give it emotion or an improvement?I've got Steinberg's WaveLab 5 and various plugins that come with it,and a Creative 24bit live soundcard,but where does one begin?I know I can't get it back to its original sound,but there must be something.A spectral analysis shows a steep cut at 15khz,I tried an EQ but got more hiss than anything.From a search on the www,I understand that a stereo recording can be made by a mono instrument(say an acoustic guitar) if recorded by left and right mics and the instrument plus room reverb creates a stereo recording.Is it not possible to use slight reverb,aka VST Plugin,to help create a sense of ambience?So far,with reverb effects,the music sounds exactly like its playing through a reverb.Can you add slight reverb to a particular band of frequencies covering voice or just percussion,or whatever?Maybe just efect one channel at a time.
Any thoughts.Happy listening.mikee55
