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Old 2006-06-29, 01:45 PM
NoddingTurdFAN NoddingTurdFAN is offline
 
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Left Mic Issue? Please Help!

Hi Everyone,

Hope y’all can figure this out.

I got out my old Minidisc masters from some shows I recorded back in 2000. These were all done using a Sharp Minidisc unit with Sony mics (don’t recall the model). They were recorded via the Line-in on the Sharp.

Haven’t looked at or traded these masters out – now that I’m transferring them digitally (Onkyo MD Deck via optical cable to PC Zoltix soundcard) I noticed an issue common to these recordings.

In layman’s terms..because I don’t know any better…it appears that the positive side of the left channel is brickwalled. If you look at the below screenshot you can see that the upper portion of the left channel doesn’t ever hit those nice peaks that the lower portion of the L channel or the entire R channel does. Would it be accurate to say “the positive db of the left channel is cut off?”. When I isolate the L channel and play it back compared to the R channel it doesn’t sound as bright and sounds a little dead. If I play with the Graphic EQ filter I can bring it to life with some effort. What I’d like to do is see if anyone can tell me how to find out if it’s a specific frequency and above that’s being killed. That way I can make a common adjustment for this batch of recordings I’m transferring.

I’m not really into remastering recordings and prefer to send the unadulterated ones out to traders for THEM to make any adjustments they see fit. I’m no expert – just want to try and figure out the problem so I can “fix” the file.

Thoughts?

Thanks,



Last edited by NoddingTurdFAN; 2006-06-29 at 01:57 PM.
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