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shkaell
Location: USA
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Hi,
Yesterday, my friend recorded my jazz/funk trio: piano, electric bass, and drums, and he gave me an unmixed version on CD. I got the files onto my computer and I would like to mix the recording. All of the instruments are on one track so I can't really control bass, piano, and drms individually. The bass dominates the right channel and the piano is on the left. Drums are primarily left, but also strong on right.
The PROBLEM: The snare drum hits and cymbols are SO LOUD, and the piano is SO SOFT. Bass is fine. How do I bring UP the piano and bring DOWN the drums, being that they are not on separate tracks and they both dominate the left channel?
lastly, the overall volume is not that loud...should I normalize or amplify? and is that the last step?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my first time using cool edit.
ThankS!
Steve K.
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Caleb
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without them being on seperate channels, you are kind of stuck.. you can eq a little bit to adjust frequencies, but actually raising the level of one instrument and/or lowering the level of another is beyond the scope of capabilities in cool edit when everything is on one track
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VoodooRadio
Location: USA
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| Posted - Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:57 am |
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If the piano is panned hard left... make a copy of the left side of the stereo file. That should give you a track that is primarily piano. Put it in the multi-track session alongside your stereo file and use it to increase the volume of the piano. 
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RossW
Location: USA
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| Posted - Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:59 pm |
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You don't specify whether you've got CoolEdit Pro, or CoolEdit 2000. Your options will be somewhat limited if you have the latter. Regardless, you might benefit from some compression and/or limiting, to bring those snare drum and cymbol hits down a bit without reducing the bass or piano. Conversely, you might be able to bring the piano up in the left channel but keep the drums at bay with some expansion of the quieter piano portions. If you've got multi-track capabilities with CE2K (and you will with Pro), then Voodoo's suggestion will help a lot. Perhaps you can so some panning to even things out a bit as well across the stereo image.
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motorhead6
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| Posted - Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:31 pm |
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Its not unmixed if its all on one track. Get it from him on 3 seperate tracks as 3 seperate files.
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