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Old 30th July 2008   #2
Mosby
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Originally Posted by IM WHO YOU THINK View Post
I can get some pretty good sounds out of stuff that I track. When I control the quality going in. I'm all good. But when I'm asked to track low budget stuff that's not tracked under the "best" or conditions (read best as meaning at least good/decent conditions).

I never get what I want from it. I'm a terrible turd polisher but more and more I'm being asked to fix stuff that I really don't feel I can get the results I'd want from.

What do I do to improve this?
Well. I think you answered your own question.

Perhaps one solution would be to plan for the shortcomings ahead of time. Maybe grab a di from the guitars so you can reamp later - or plan on using samples to some degree to help the drums etc....
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