Billy Cobham live remaster
.the source is tape damaged. it wanders slightly here and there, and it sounds very saturated in certain freq areas. some are almost missing. but i think i breathed some life back into it. dont bother telling me it needs de noising .What i’m about
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Hi. thanks for stopping by. My names Tony a.k.a Pure-Tone.
Mastering engineers can be renowned for being unapproachable, sometimes arrogant and slightly secretive. This can be due to a few things…spending too much time with computers, disappearing farther into audio than is healthy for a person, and possibly a feeling of elitism. Well you can forget all of that with me!. I may spend the day with working with computers, but I have no intention of becoming one. If you want to chat about audio/ask questions etc, come find me on Twitter . If I’m not working on audio, I want to be talking/writing about it.
So whats this blog all about?? . mainly Mastering and general audio etc, but its also about the road that brought me to where i am now. hopefully, some of the readers will take away a few positive points to help them make the most of their own potential.
Take it from the top!!
took to learning guitar at about 13.became a reasonable player, including some good lead work. first guitar was a strat….only a squier, but one of the early ones with staggered alnico pickups etc…..i digress , but even at that age people would comment on my sound. i was never the most technical player, sure i could do some fancy sweeping (no..not with a broom ) but my sound was always my best attribute.
Early recording endeavours
Dad owned a small local studio. 16 track 2 inch tape multitrack and a huge soundcraft desk, neither of which were in great working order. Revox 1/4 inch open reel, a few good mics, including u87,414 etc, very minimal processing, 1 stereo comp, 1 delay/adt. plate reverb then a yamaha rev 7 in the late 80′s. Oh….not to forget…the biggest pair of wall mounted Tannoys you ever saw!. I feared for my life when walking under those. The material we produced was nothing to be proud of, but at a time when most musicians could only dream of such luxuries, we were pretty lucky.
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