Fran Guidry

Since everyone else is being very respectful of the pure acoustic quality of the original, I decided to go a different direction. This version has a lot of fooling around, with fairly heavy handed reverbing.

My rig is based on an old Dell PC. I've installed a LynxTwo C soundcard, and use Adobe Audition 1.5 as my software.

I started by running 50% Noise reduction on the 2001 file, using the lead-in sample.

Same on 603 file. Then I trimmed the head and tail from both tracks.

Adobe Audition 1.5 has added Spectral View editing, which I used to reduce squeaks on both files.

Normalized both files to 98%.

"Hand limited" by examining peaks and pulling them down with envelope tool.

Created copy of 2001 file, used the Quick Filter (simple graphic EQ) to roll off top and bottom. Ran through hard limiter to trim peaks. -9db limit, 7 ms lookahead, 54 ms release.

Copied the filtered and limited 2001 file, processed with Full Reverb using the Medium Concert Hall (Crisp) preset, 0% dry, 100% wet.

Copied the filtered and limited 2001 file, processed with Full Reverb using the Rich Chamber preset, 0% dry, 100% wet.

Copied the 603 file, used hard limiter to trim peaks to -6db, then processed with the Acoustic Duet Chorus preset.

Loaded files into the multitrack mixer:

Track 1 - 2001 panned 40% left

Track 2 - 603 panned 40% right

Track 3 - 603 limited and chorused, 5 db down, panned center

Track 4 - 2001 filtered and limited track, delayed 100 ms, pingpong panned full left to full right, 3 full cycles over the whole song. This track is down about 16db.

Track 5 - 2001 filtered and limited track, with 100% Medium Concert Hall (Crisp) reverb, delayed 50 ms, panned hard left. This track is down about 20 db.

Track 6 - 2001 filtered and limited track, with 100% Rich Chamber reverb, delayed 45 ms, panned hard right. This track is down about 20 db.

After all this fooling around, there's an aberration about 37 seconds into the song. Probably because I ran the limiter over the tracks before I verbed them, when the dynamic of the dry tracks goes up the balance between the direct and reverb changes and the track suddenly sounds like it's in a different room. Like, uh, psychedelic, man.

After the mixdown, I normalized again to 98%, then applied an evelope to smooth the ending fade.