Jim

......but is there an inexpensive, authentic-sounding plug in or program that allows you to do that on the PC? (That's not looking for an argument, just a question!)

argument???? where sound is concerned - everyone is right! - a very personal thing - what say you??

Authentic-sounding - "to whom" tends to be my answer - I can tell the difference - but sound is "what I do" - and I would guess that 90%+ of the music listening public certainly wouldn't notice other than saying they preferred the sound when applied to the right kind of music (I sure you know what I'm referring to without listings!) - I use the sound forge plug-in (with a lot of tweaking) - not what I would call "cheap" (in either sense of the word) and not for the occasional user - but I have had some very pleasing results both for myself and the artists concerned - only problem being the compression added by our friends at the broadcasting studio's - buggers up the sound no end!!


Having monitors, portable players, budget range hi-fi's plus and expensive system in the listening suite at the studio - our recordings get a wide range of listening prior to final mix-down - and unfortunately the final mix is aimed firmly at the best sound for the middle of the range - to give an acceptable sound for the majority of the buying public. sad but life....

Sound tends to be a bit like photography - Gran loves those old 110 photo's of her grand children - a profession photographer would view them with a different eye - but he won't change Grans mind - quite rightly - too often do I find myself listening to "problems" on a recording and not what the artist wanted me to - the music - my loss.

cheers Pete