I’ve got a bunch, (25-30), of old songs I’ve written and recorded about 30 years ago that I’d like to remaster in order to clean them up and try to make them sound a little better. They are stereo wma files, so my options are pretty limited on what I can do with them.

Mac took one of these old songs, Sweetest Personality, and remastered it for me and he definitely made it sound much better. I’m pretty sure he used Audacity to work on it. It’s posted on my SoundCloud site with before and after versions. I really appreciate him working on it for me because I know he put a lot of time into it.

The songs were recorded in the following manner:
Tascam 4 track Portastudio cassette
1st track was always a click track recorded with a mechanical metronome
2nd track was rhythm guitar, using a Martin D35 acoustic recorded using a Martin Thinline pickup. If the rhythm was electric, it was a Fender American Stratocaster played through a Roland JC-120 amp
3rd track was a Fender Precision bass

I would then start combining and bouncing tracks to make room until I ended up with 6-10 tracks on the songs.

I obviously can’t do anything to individual tracks now since I’m left with stereo wma files to work with, but I’m looking for tips on remastering them.

Which program out of the following would you use and why? (Note: These are programs I have). Audacity or RB 2009? I'm leaning toward Audacity.

For example, what frequencies should I be looking at on an EQ for the following if I want to boost or cut them:

01. Acoustic guitar
02. Electric guitar
03. Bass
04. Vocals

Any other tips would be appreciated. The styles of the songs run the gamut from folk to folk rock, country, pop, etc. No bluegrass because I hadn’t reached that “stage” in my playing as far as writing songs.

As always, thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.

Last edited by bobcflatpicker; 12/15/10 04:29 AM.
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