Members fuzzface71 Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 Hey boys, My band played a gig last weekend and it was recorded live. The recording was free and ok, I guess, but it was a bit dry sounding. We got a cd copy without our mixing supervision or anything like that. So, my question is..Is there a free software that we can download to maybe e.q. the recording a bit and maybe put some kind of reverb or add effects of some sort? Thanks in advance.
Members David Jatt Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/ If you have an OS that'll run it, that should do it.
Members jcn37203 Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 Is it just a straight audio 1 track recording? If so, I'd like to know what you can really do to that. You wouldn't want to apply effects to the whole recording, would you?
Members fuzzface71 Posted September 1, 2005 Author Members Posted September 1, 2005 I'm not sure, but I think everything was separated.
Members Eddie Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 I don't think the free ProTools comes with plugins. I'm not familiar with PC software, but they seem to have more free VST plugins, which may be better suited for what you want. If you have it already mixed, you could still use eq., compression, reverb, and/or some enhancer/exciter to the whole mix. If things are separated it will be easier.
Members Eddie Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 By the way, for the Mac Mackie's Tracktion used to be free. TC Electronics also had a free software. I think these included some plugins. You can go to versiontracker and do a search for recording software.
Members Chriss Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 Importing it into GarageBand, you can do a pretty decent job of mastering it. There are some surprisingly good effects in there, including eq, compression, gate, reverb, echo, etc. I got mine free when I bought my G5, but I think it's pretty cheap to buy.
Members MoreGuitars Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 Download the trial version of Adobe Audition. It has great mastering plug-ins. I think you get it for 15 days. You might even end up buying it!
Members fuzzface71 Posted September 1, 2005 Author Members Posted September 1, 2005 Just wanna add that I might not be able to use my mac because of low memory. So, I might use my roomate's PC.
Members Eddie Posted September 1, 2005 Members Posted September 1, 2005 Originally posted by fuzzface71 Just wanna add that I might not be able to use my mac because of low memory. So, I might use my roomate's PC. I think there's a lost of useful freeware for working with music on a PC. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with it.Regarding Garage Band, I do like it, but it's very resource-intensive. My G4/800 1GB memory OS X 10.4.2 often struggles with it. For working with audio I always go back to OS 9 (and ProTools).
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