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samtastic · 15th July 2009

well i tried dropping the volume in my taken-from-CD tracks when mixing, and then blending in the taken-from-vinyl tracks at a volume that sounds right. And this definitely helped. So i'll be doing this from now on.

However, I've only tried it with a track of a particular EP, and i found that it now lacked a lot of definitive top-end. There was plenty of upper vocal top end (say around 5KHz) - perhaps even too much, but not enough definition of the higher percussion (around 10KHz).

But i cant be sure if this is due to my soundcard/record player/stylus or simply the way the record is produced. I'll have to try it with another soon.

thanks for the suggestions so far

15th July 2009	#11
samtastic Gear nut Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 112 Thread Starter	well i tried dropping the volume in my taken-from-CD tracks when mixing, and then blending in the taken-from-vinyl tracks at a volume that sounds right. And this definitely helped. So i'll be doing this from now on. However, I've only tried it with a track of a particular EP, and i found that it now lacked a lot of definitive top-end. There was plenty of upper vocal top end (say around 5KHz) - perhaps even too much, but not enough definition of the higher percussion (around 10KHz). But i cant be sure if this is due to my soundcard/record player/stylus or simply the way the record is produced. I'll have to try it with another soon. thanks for the suggestions so far