marksturdy Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Hello people.New here, so be gentle with me!I'm currently transferring some old tracks (precise origin unknown, except that they're home studio recordings circa 1999, standard play, stereo) from an old mindisc onto my PC. The problem I'm having is that the higher frequencies (and this is especially noticeable on cymbals) seem to be distorted by a strange 'squishing' effect, which sounds kind of like (but isn't) badly-applied digital noise reduction.Is anyone else familiar with this syndrome? Is there a way of getting rid of it other than EQing the track so the high frequencies in general are less audible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 what's the compression on the md? sounds like compression artefacts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksturdy Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 SP as far as I can tell. (Is that right? Let me know if it sounds like I'm talking crap)I do know that the recording process involved bouncing the audio between a couple of different mindisc players. Maybe the artefacts arose at that stage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 that would be right, through analog cables right? SP was the right choice. it's beyond my limit of help i'm affraid, looks like post production is in order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Every time you transfer from MD to MD through analog cables, there's a Atrac decompression->DA-conversion->AD-conversion->Atrac compression process involved, which can amplify aritfacts badly if done too often. In the end you can't do much about it except for searching for the master tape and avoiding this kind of very lossy transfer in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killroy Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Hello people.New here, so be gentle with me!I'm currently transferring some old tracks (precise origin unknown, except that they're home studio recordings circa 1999, standard play, stereo) from an old mindisc onto my PC. The problem I'm having is that the higher frequencies (and this is especially noticeable on cymbals) seem to be distorted by a strange 'squishing' effect, which sounds kind of like (but isn't) badly-applied digital noise reduction.Is anyone else familiar with this syndrome? Is there a way of getting rid of it other than EQing the track so the high frequencies in general are less audible?Hello,as a last resort, you could try to enhance the transferred recordings with an audio editor like Audacity. This one has some useful rendering tools (fine-adjustable equalizer, noise reduction/removal, dynamic range compressor) which might enable you to make it a little better at least...Cheers - Killroy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug80 Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 What soundcard do you use for the recording and what are your settings concerning sampling frequency and bit-depth? Maybe there´s something wrong there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksturdy Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 It's a fairly standard on-board soundcard - don't know the exact type but it's Creative, 2003 vintage. I've been sampling at 44100hz, 16 bit.I think Greenmachine may have hit the nail on the head here, thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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