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This is actually the unmastered version. For the remastered version,
go here.
Greatly improved version of the
earlier upload
I straight away accepted Tobin Mueller's great offer to remaster my first MacJams upload.
It simply wasn't possible to *remix* from scratch since I don't (appear to) have the original data disk to hand.
Having (last week) compared both versions however, it was possible to make many overall improvements c/o MacJam's.
Maybe Tobin could let us know a bit about remastering and what he did to this WAV before it was converted back to MP3. Moreover, *top tips* on converting WAV to MP3 is one to be further explored.
I'm always keen to learn and it's great to bounce ideas around generally.
This is actually the unmastered version. For the remastered version,
go here.
Greatly improved version of the
earlier upload
I straight away accepted Tobin Mueller's great offer to remaster my first MacJams upload.
It simply wasn't possible to *remix* from scratch since I don't (appear to) have the original data disk to hand.
Having (last week) compared both versions however, it was possible to make many overall improvements c/o MacJam's.
Maybe Tobin could let us know a bit about remastering and what he did to this WAV before it was converted back to MP3. Moreover, *top tips* on converting WAV to MP3 is one to be further explored.
I'm always keen to learn and it's great to bounce ideas around generally.
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Lyrics
Sadly, with vocalist Eddie being a native of the once *mean streets* of deepest Easterhouse in the East of Glasgow, it was not easy to decipher some of his lyrics.
Sorry, that's Glasgae fur ya.
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Contributors:-
Eddie Dyer/Bluestorm - song,
Eddie Dyer - vocals,
Dave "Flatch" Fletcher - guitars,
George Anderson - bass,
Craig - drums,
Bluestorm - backing vocals,
Steck - keyboards/recording/production
Remastering - Tobin Mueller
(c) Bluestorm
Sorry, that's Glasgae fur ya.
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Contributors:-
Eddie Dyer/Bluestorm - song,
Eddie Dyer - vocals,
Dave "Flatch" Fletcher - guitars,
George Anderson - bass,
Craig - drums,
Bluestorm - backing vocals,
Steck - keyboards/recording/production
Remastering - Tobin Mueller
(c) Bluestorm
TobinMueller
Such a nice song, so well performed. I'm glad steck gave me a chance to remaster the track; it was an old recording with out-of-balance mixing and EQing that seemed to shift as the song progressed. I tried to bring out the vocals, accentuate the bass, bring the backing instruments up a bit and add clarity to the drums (especially the snare and the cymbals). Sadly, the cymbals still sound like frying bacon and the choruses now sound even more compressed, but overall the tracks is much better, I hope. Please compare. I brought up the overall volume levels (which were low) to a more normal limit, I think. Converting to mp3 accentuates the highs too much, tho. It sounds pretty good in headphones.
I master songs in PEAK utilizing mainly WAVE plugins. From the mix perspective, your original began with an electric piano solo in which the piano was much too loud, mainly on the right of the stereo field, so for the intro, I changed L-R tracks independently, trying to calm the piano down while bringing up the other instrumentals with a mixture of EQ, compression and limiting.
Every chorus was crushed with compression and had different EQing than the verses. I had the most trouble equalizing the sound. I wasn't entirely successful. But at least the jumps in levels are better, but I couldn't decompress those choruses like I wanted. I did bring up the bass and make everything a tad more even.
The guitar solo was panned left. I tried to bring it to the middle a bit, even out the volume, and I think I might have made it too soft. On the "Hendrix" line, the original actually flips L-R for 2 bars (which I left as is), but the guitar punched way too loud at that point, so I fixed that. I tried to retain the era feel throughout.
I think I was most successful at giving the bass personality and keeping it alive for the entire song (which took shifting EQs constantly). I'm also happy with the way I made the vocals crisper and more evenly in the mix, altho the old, uneven original made it difficult.
I have enjoyed stecks' historical postings and wanted to suggest how he could make the old recordings come a live a bit, which is why I tried to tweak his WAV file. (He's improved his own remastered a bunch since.) I'm glad he continues to share his quality songwriting skills and some of his old recordings. Steck is a wonderful addition to MJ.