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So yeah... I'm just sharing.... to share.
I had this nearly twenty year old tracked performance data stuck on a 100MB zip disc and I have wanted for years now to revisit that track, clean it up, and fix and redo some things. It was stuck because it was recorded on a first generation Roland VS840 - and I had no way to convert the specialized Roland format to .wav. If I could just get this data into the DP-32SD (or Reaper) - I could, hopefully, fix some things - including the drums and the crudely recorded mono vocal track in particular.
So... acting on a tip from - who else - Phil Tipping... I recorded a sharp percussion hit at the same time mark on several of the tracks in the Roland. Then I recorded the tracks in real time one by one into the DP. Simply lined them up... and voila - now I had them in a platform that allowed me to work on them.
I first tweaked, compressed, and EQ'd the drums. Still not perfect as there is only so much lipstick that can be applied to this pig - but MUCH better.
But what I did with the crappy vocal track is where this became a worthwhile endeavor.
I took this crudely recorded vocal track which originally had been laid down with the singer standing in the closet of my apartment at the time - SM58 direct into the Roland VS840 (regretfully - for some GD reason I printed some reverb with that track - damn it) - and I sent it out through a Warm Audio TB12 preamp and added subtle amounts of analog hair and warmth - and back into the DP - compressing generously on the way back in. Then I sent this mono track out through a stereo digital delay - I have a couple to work with but I just grabbed my Boss DD-6 floor pedal - and set the delay for a subtle doubling effect... keeping the level of the delayed signal just barely noticeable... and sent that back to a stereo pair. It worked out great! Huge improvement. Very happy with my results.
So yeah... there you have it.
I had this nearly twenty year old tracked performance data stuck on a 100MB zip disc and I have wanted for years now to revisit that track, clean it up, and fix and redo some things. It was stuck because it was recorded on a first generation Roland VS840 - and I had no way to convert the specialized Roland format to .wav. If I could just get this data into the DP-32SD (or Reaper) - I could, hopefully, fix some things - including the drums and the crudely recorded mono vocal track in particular.
So... acting on a tip from - who else - Phil Tipping... I recorded a sharp percussion hit at the same time mark on several of the tracks in the Roland. Then I recorded the tracks in real time one by one into the DP. Simply lined them up... and voila - now I had them in a platform that allowed me to work on them.
I first tweaked, compressed, and EQ'd the drums. Still not perfect as there is only so much lipstick that can be applied to this pig - but MUCH better.
But what I did with the crappy vocal track is where this became a worthwhile endeavor.
I took this crudely recorded vocal track which originally had been laid down with the singer standing in the closet of my apartment at the time - SM58 direct into the Roland VS840 (regretfully - for some GD reason I printed some reverb with that track - damn it) - and I sent it out through a Warm Audio TB12 preamp and added subtle amounts of analog hair and warmth - and back into the DP - compressing generously on the way back in. Then I sent this mono track out through a stereo digital delay - I have a couple to work with but I just grabbed my Boss DD-6 floor pedal - and set the delay for a subtle doubling effect... keeping the level of the delayed signal just barely noticeable... and sent that back to a stereo pair. It worked out great! Huge improvement. Very happy with my results.
So yeah... there you have it.
