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Frequency splitting tracks to control lo-fi or midrange material

Frequency splitting tracks to control lo-fi or midrange material - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Frequency splitting tracks to control lo-fi or midrange material

- Many times I'm delivered files to work with and mixes that are of a relatively low fidelity and in some cases they're just poorly recorded, other times they're archival material, trying to make sound a little better than it was presented and a lot of times I'm trying to fit something into a mix. So in order to demonstrate this I recorded a friend of mine, Erin Sutherland, singing and I had her sing to this mic called the Copperphone which is a really cool, handmade microphone that has a very low frequency width. It's very mid-rangey and it's designed to sound that way because it's a carbon microphone, just kind of one of the oldest type of microphones developed way back. Here's what her track sounds like: ♫ I can't seem to ♫ ♫ To remember you ♫ - If it sounds like she's singing through a telephone it's because the original old school telephone microphones were actually carbon mics. So I'm going to show you a way to really change the sound of this dramatically. So follow me, this is…

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