). Okay, my question is: I listen to a lot of baroque music on my iPod and on my PowerMac. The problem is, a lot of baroque music these days is recorded on period instruments in a very dry acoustic, like a studio, with the instruments very closely miked. The result sounds like skeletons copulating (in the words of one classical review magazine). What I'd like to do is process the sound to give it a more resonant, spacious effect, like you get with heavy symphonic music recorded in a big concert hall or church - basically to add some kind of reverb, I guess, but without giving it a lame, synthetic Munich Disco Remix sound. Anyone aware of or using software that might fit the bill? Grazie molto! ding
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by dingosatemybaby » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:25 pm
No doubt I'd be better off directing this question to a Mac user group, but you guys and gals seem to have answers for pretty much everything, and, besides, this is pretty much the only forum I visit regularly (yes, I'm THAT busy ). Okay, my question is: I listen to a lot of baroque music on my iPod and on my PowerMac. The problem is, a lot of baroque music these days is recorded on period instruments in a very dry acoustic, like a studio, with the instruments very closely miked. The result sounds like skeletons copulating (in the words of one classical review magazine). What I'd like to do is process the sound to give it a more resonant, spacious effect, like you get with heavy symphonic music recorded in a big concert hall or church - basically to add some kind of reverb, I guess, but without giving it a lame, synthetic Munich Disco Remix sound. Anyone aware of or using software that might fit the bill? Grazie molto! ding
). Okay, my question is: I listen to a lot of baroque music on my iPod and on my PowerMac. The problem is, a lot of baroque music these days is recorded on period instruments in a very dry acoustic, like a studio, with the instruments very closely miked. The result sounds like skeletons copulating (in the words of one classical review magazine). What I'd like to do is process the sound to give it a more resonant, spacious effect, like you get with heavy symphonic music recorded in a big concert hall or church - basically to add some kind of reverb, I guess, but without giving it a lame, synthetic Munich Disco Remix sound. Anyone aware of or using software that might fit the bill? Grazie molto! ding"During a period of exciting discovery or progress there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. The time for that comes later, when all the important work has been done. Perfection, we know, is finality; and finality is death."
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GarageBand can do it
by mr. sparkle » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:58 pm
You can set the EQ right in iTunes. But if that isn't working well enough for you, you can add 'verb in GarageBand.
Also is the free application Audacity, which supports VST plug-ins. There are lots of free plug-ins and a download for Audacity here.
Also is the free application Audacity, which supports VST plug-ins. There are lots of free plug-ins and a download for Audacity here.
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by Charles » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:56 pm
You might try Volume Logic, which adds some simple additional EQ and adjustments to iTunes, I'm not quite sure what the hell they are, expanders, boosters, whatever. Iit has presets that work rather nicely, including a preset to make your dinky Powerbook speakers sound balanced. I installed it on my sister's iBook and she couldn't believe the difference. But these are speakers the size of a quarter. If you have a better audio rig and a critical ear, you might not like the processing that Volume Logic does. Or you might love it. But it's a 2-week free trial so what the hell.
http://www.octiv.com/index.asp?content=iTunes
Octiv says they could put Volume Logic on an iPod if Apple would open up the platform to 3rd party plugins, they already have code that will run on that processor but there's no hook in the iPod OS to engage the plugins. Apple would need to make only one minor firmware update to the iPod, Octiv sez the iPod OS looks like it was designed to accept plugins but they pulled the feature.
http://www.octiv.com/index.asp?content=iTunes
Octiv says they could put Volume Logic on an iPod if Apple would open up the platform to 3rd party plugins, they already have code that will run on that processor but there's no hook in the iPod OS to engage the plugins. Apple would need to make only one minor firmware update to the iPod, Octiv sez the iPod OS looks like it was designed to accept plugins but they pulled the feature.
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