Hi Folks,
I'm trying to salvage some old recordings. Alas, the masters are in ADAT format, and I have no access to ADAT machines (and therefore the master tapes). It is likely to be this way for some time.

The only mixes I have floating around are pulled from old cassettes.

That said, as I learn my new DM5s I wonder if you folks can give me some general comments/suggestions on tone-shaping/mastering based on your monitoring environments?

General stuff, like "bottom is too wooly", "could use more/less top-end detail" etc. would bge a great help!

The first track is "The Gods Hit the Bricks"
http://www.danieljslewis.com/songs/Gods%20Hit%20the%20Bricks.mp3

Thanks!
Dan

For being remastered off of a cassette copy, I think that's pretty great! I wouldn't change anything other than the tape hiss (if possible), but not if it's at the expense of 'the sound'. Are you doing the 'cassette remastering' on a computer, and if so have you tried any of the Sound Soap / Waves X-Noise / Cedar type plugins on the cassette hiss?

Hi chrisrnps,
Thanks for listening, and for the kind words!

It was tracked back in the day when I still had a studio full of API, Summit, Focusrite, Neve, Neumann, etc (had to sell when my then girlfriend got cancer). Studio is vastly more modest now.

Yep - I'm trying to clean them up in Cubase SX. I could try some noise reduction demos and see what the trade-off is.

If its not a huge inconvenience, could you let me know what tone shaping you think I might need to do with this one?

"Face On the Floor"
http://www.danieljslewis.com/songs/Face%20On%20the%20Floor.mp3

Thanks!
Dan

Needs noise reduction. Mix sounds real nice. No issues that I can hear, not on my HR824's anyway

Just listening on comp ph's so nothing re the mix other than it does seem to be a little heavy on the top, especially in the vocs. But hey, thats better than wooly

Nice job on the recovery.

Thanks for listening, guys! Off now to try the Redunoise demo...