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A note about remastering
Well, planning to take a crank at two Indiana Jones soundtracks I was brought through my researches on the site of the master engineer Steve Hoffman (DCC releases) and found his "lessons" for EQs and so for audiophiles.
I was glad to see my whole process matched with the one he recommands, in "cheapest" , so I can only invite anybody interested to read that:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/dhinterviews/
Now I must say I feel a little like a ant in front of his knowledge. Of course I surely don't have such an equipment he recommands.
To make it short about my own process, I use a first digital equalization to make the sound the more precise possible (through an old version of Nero, on a damn precise sounding very old computer - a Bull one), ignoring any kind of enhancements, what results in a flat sound. I call that: "make my table clean". I burn this work on a CD and check out on my Marrantz CD player if it sounds equilibrated, with bass & treble at 0 (though I use to leave the loundness function enabled as I'm used to it)...
... Please note: I haven't said "good"... But "equilibrated".
To notice also: I use to lower the volume on this first stuff.
Second step goes with uploading this new stuff, and find the precises points where to model my sound, and my way to do this matches quite well with S. Hoffman's ways.
BTW, when he says "never add, just subtract what is there already", I can only agreed.
I use the exact same graphic equalizator on this step cause I don't have other equipment nor I have a precise parametric equalizator. However I keep on modeling and thinking in curves and rare are the occasions when I break one.
A serious and well equiped audiophile may have worked at such restorations than the one attempted here with cheap equipment, and I'm sure it would have given a better rendition. Never forget that digital processing only imitate the analog ones, and the word "digital" should be relied to the final format and to a couple of tools for accurate checking, but not to a quality guaranty ( - "Digitally remastered" ! ).
Anyway, just thought sharing those informations may be useful for people like Hairy Hen working at audio mixes enhancements.