Preach Right Here

[pauli]

Hey man, thanks for listening.

that's shocking, you need a quality noise reduction processor.

Any recommendations on that score? De-noising is a serious weak link in my audio processing... I've never found a de-noiser that didn't have unacceptably unmusical side effects.

i'm intellectually guessing that you worked on this source in 16bit without converting it to 32bit during import to your DAW?

HOWEVER all processing applied to this converted 32bit file, will be in 32bit, complete with the benefits of added dynamic range! why 32bit? because 24 bit doesn't divide nicely into 16, you get some stuff left over or left out which makes it a quality problem (at least to people like me).

That's a very useful tip. You know, I'm always trying to chew up all the tech stuff I can (or else how can I be a decent technician?) so this is really helpful. Makes sense, too...

sonically, the mix is as flat as a pancake. slapping a decent exciter over the stereo buss would help inject some life and sparkle into it

Yes, I think I abused it a bit with the multiband comp... pretty much flattened out the spectral balance and the dynamics. I'll get to work fixing this... it doesn't help that my references were mid-90s. And I only have the re-mixed version of Pearl Jam's Ten on CD, which tried and failed to copy the sonics from Nevermind in my opinion... the original sound is much closer to what I was hoping for.

Now if I reference Donald Fagen... well. We'll just have to see how that goes.

I'll give this one another look and give you a shout when it's posted. Thanks for the tips