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Subject:Mastering with Sound Forge Posted by: jlim Date:1/27/2000 11:13:00 AM Hello, I was wondering if anybody know's where I can get more info on mastering with sound forge. I do alot of field recording of live music (mostly acoustic instruments: acoustic guitars, woodwinds. etc.) with a minidisc recorder and a stereo mic and am in the process of preparing a cd. I know the basics but was searching for some real nitty gritty stuff. Any info on more sophisticated sound processing techniques would be great. Books?! Web sites?! Thanks. Jerry
Subject:Re: Mastering with Sound Forge Reply by: RickZ Date:1/28/2000 9:20:00 AM Hi Jerry, I've used Forge for a few years, pretty much doing the same thing you are, preparing acoustic recordings to be put on CD-R. I didn't use the word mastering, because I don't consider myself experienced enough to deserve that moniker. At any rate, my reason for replying is to suggest using Vegas instead. I have begun doing my acoustic recording using Vegas, in 24-bit,96 KHz. I perceive improved clarity of the result, when processing with Vegas, vs Forge. If you're talking about doing a portable session, to 16Bit/44.1 DAT, then copy to computer, again, I think Vegas processes better, ie cleaner resulting sound. If you're doing compression, the Track Compressor in Vegas sounds much better to my ears. FWIW . . Regards, Rick Z Jerry Lim wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I was wondering if anybody know's where I can get more info >>on mastering with sound forge. I do alot of field >>recording of live music (mostly acoustic instruments: >>acoustic guitars, woodwinds. etc.) with a minidisc recorder >>and a stereo mic and am in the process of preparing a cd. >>I know the basics but was searching for some real nitty >>gritty stuff. Any info on more sophisticated sound >>processing techniques would be great. Books?! Web >>sites?! Thanks. >> >>Jerry
Subject:Re: Mastering with Sound Forge Reply by: Vid_Nut Date:2/13/2000 3:10:00 AM Jerry, I also do live recording with a minidisc recorder, and use Sound Forge for mastering. The tools I use most are the Sonic Timeworks Mastering Compressor (http://www.sonictimeworks.com/) and the Qsound Qtools Qxpander (when it needs a bit more separation). Sound Forge is a great tools for the purpose. Since minidisc is 16 bit 44.1kHz, there would not be much benefit in a tool that is 24 bit. Between those and the native tools in SF, it's all I've needed. Feel free to email me if you have any questions. -- Martin

Subject:Mastering with Sound Forge

Posted by: jlim

Date:1/27/2000 11:13:00 AM

Hello,

I was wondering if anybody know's where I can get more info
on mastering with sound forge. I do alot of field
recording of live music (mostly acoustic instruments:
acoustic guitars, woodwinds. etc.) with a minidisc recorder
and a stereo mic and am in the process of preparing a cd.
I know the basics but was searching for some real nitty
gritty stuff. Any info on more sophisticated sound
processing techniques would be great. Books?! Web
sites?! Thanks.

Jerry

Subject:Re: Mastering with Sound Forge

Reply by: RickZ

Date:1/28/2000 9:20:00 AM

Hi Jerry,

I've used Forge for a few years, pretty much doing the same thing you
are, preparing acoustic recordings to be put on CD-R. I didn't use
the word mastering, because I don't consider myself experienced
enough to deserve that moniker. At any rate, my reason for replying
is to suggest using Vegas instead. I have begun doing my acoustic
recording using Vegas, in 24-bit,96 KHz. I perceive improved clarity
of the result, when processing with Vegas, vs Forge.

If you're talking about doing a portable session, to 16Bit/44.1 DAT,
then copy to computer, again, I think Vegas processes better, ie
cleaner resulting sound. If you're doing compression, the Track
Compressor in Vegas sounds much better to my ears.

FWIW . .

Regards,
Rick Z

Jerry Lim wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I was wondering if anybody know's where I can get more info
>>on mastering with sound forge. I do alot of field
>>recording of live music (mostly acoustic instruments:
>>acoustic guitars, woodwinds. etc.) with a minidisc recorder
>>and a stereo mic and am in the process of preparing a cd.
>>I know the basics but was searching for some real nitty
>>gritty stuff. Any info on more sophisticated sound
>>processing techniques would be great. Books?! Web
>>sites?! Thanks.
>>
>>Jerry

Subject:Re: Mastering with Sound Forge

Reply by: Vid_Nut

Date:2/13/2000 3:10:00 AM

Jerry,

I also do live recording with a minidisc recorder, and use Sound
Forge for mastering. The tools I use most are the Sonic Timeworks
Mastering Compressor (http://www.sonictimeworks.com/) and the Qsound
Qtools Qxpander (when it needs a bit more separation). Sound Forge is
a great tools for the purpose. Since minidisc is 16 bit 44.1kHz,
there would not be much benefit in a tool that is 24 bit. Between
those and the native tools in SF, it's all I've needed. Feel free to
email me if you have any questions.

-- Martin