Comments on: New Music Ahoy http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:47:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Denyer http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467/comment-page-1#comment-652 Denyer Tue, 24 May 2005 16:59:32 +0000 http://inaudible.co.uk/blog/archives/467#comment-652 Yeah, a bit of crowd and banter in the mix is nice. Often you can get preferable results with a mic in front of a band than by simply recording through the soundboard, because that's been optimised for a specific set of speakers...<br /> <br /> Plus it's always different listening to a gig that you were at. Yeah, a bit of crowd and banter in the mix is nice. Often you can get preferable results with a mic in front of a band than by simply recording through the soundboard, because that’s been optimised for a specific set of speakers…

Plus it’s always different listening to a gig that you were at.

]]> By: Christopher http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467/comment-page-1#comment-651 Christopher Tue, 24 May 2005 14:59:12 +0000 http://inaudible.co.uk/blog/archives/467#comment-651 gimme raw stuff any day :0)<br /> i actually like my own recordings of the cwps gig better than those, can't be anything to do with quality though, maybe just atmosphere or something... gimme raw stuff any day :0)
i actually like my own recordings of the cwps gig better than those, can’t be anything to do with quality though, maybe just atmosphere or something…

]]> By: Denyer http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467/comment-page-1#comment-650 Denyer Tue, 24 May 2005 14:05:38 +0000 http://inaudible.co.uk/blog/archives/467#comment-650 > the actual song's much better than the one on white russain galaxy<br /> <br /> Oh, hell yeah. Extra bits, a lot more "oomph" to the playing. The original is sounding quite slow and empty now in comparison. =)<br /> <br /> There's two schools of thought when it comes to releasing live stuff. The purist approach involves giving people the raw recording to play with, the other giving things some post-prod for people who normally only listen to studio work.<br /> <br /> As far as the d/l quality goes, I can only guess that KAH supplied TT with 160kbps encodings. It could've been done less sloppily for no extra effort, y'know? > the actual song’s much better than the one on white russain galaxy

Oh, hell yeah. Extra bits, a lot more "oomph" to the playing. The original is sounding quite slow and empty now in comparison. =)

There’s two schools of thought when it comes to releasing live stuff. The purist approach involves giving people the raw recording to play with, the other giving things some post-prod for people who normally only listen to studio work.

As far as the d/l quality goes, I can only guess that KAH supplied TT with 160kbps encodings. It could’ve been done less sloppily for no extra effort, y’know?

]]> By: Christopher http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467/comment-page-1#comment-649 Christopher Tue, 24 May 2005 08:51:18 +0000 http://inaudible.co.uk/blog/archives/467#comment-649 and incase anyone just reads the first sentance of that, he means the audio quality. the actual songs much better than the one on white russain galaxy, believe me.<br /> <br /> and that eq setting you showed me ages ago works alright with it...<br /> <br /> http://www.denyersarea.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sickle.gif<br /> <br /> could be better but that's what albums are for. and incase anyone just reads the first sentance of that, he means the audio quality. the actual songs much better than the one on white russain galaxy, believe me.

and that eq setting you showed me ages ago works alright with it…

http://www.denyersarea.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sickle.gif

could be better but that’s what albums are for.

]]> By: Denyer http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/467/comment-page-1#comment-648 Denyer Mon, 23 May 2005 21:47:32 +0000 http://inaudible.co.uk/blog/archives/467#comment-648 I got 'Girl Just Died' to see if it was better than the 30-second previews. Nope. They're lying when they say "We supply music files at a bitrate of at least 192kbps."<br /> <br /> You can hear the new structure and arrangement, but other than that the recording is very muffled apart from vocals/keyboards.<br /> <br /> Either turn it up lots, or people might like to check this out:<br /> <br /> http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=3973<br /> <br /> ...and try things with the first knob a bit towards mono, the second one round to 'life' and a bit more volume (gain). <br /> <br /> Still, sounds like it was a great gig even if the recording's iffy. I got ‘Girl Just Died’ to see if it was better than the 30-second previews. Nope. They’re lying when they say "We supply music files at a bitrate of at least 192kbps."

You can hear the new structure and arrangement, but other than that the recording is very muffled apart from vocals/keyboards.

Either turn it up lots, or people might like to check this out:

http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=3973

…and try things with the first knob a bit towards mono, the second one round to ‘life’ and a bit more volume (gain).

Still, sounds like it was a great gig even if the recording’s iffy.

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