[Edmund[_2_]]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:25:53 +0000, rtweed wrote:

I'd be interested to know what software you folks would recommend for
post-production of audio field recordings (eg of ensembles, bands,
orchestras etc) - I record onto either a computer or a Zoom H4N.

I've used two products:

- Audacity which, for almost all of the things I need to do, I really
like for its simple, effective and intuitive user interface.

- Cubase LE (which has come free with a couple of devices I've
purchased) which I have found to be totally unintuitive and
frustratingly complex for even the simplest of operations.

In fact the only two areas I find Audacity lets me down a

- its EQ which has to be done "batch mode" - ie you can't modify EQ
settings and hear the effect in real-time (apart from an all too short
and usually irrelevant preview period). Instead you have to apply the
settings to some or all of the track and then listen back to hear the
results

- it doesn't provide a decent reverb, and again you can't monitor its
settings in real-time

Well since this group is called re.audio"high-end" I would suggest to stay
away from both reverb en EQ.
Both will destroy the high end part of what you recorded in the first place.


Edmund

Rob