Help with aebersold backing tracks and dp

postbop64 · Post by **postbop64** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:20 pm

I've been taking the bass & drum half of the Jamie Abersold Play-A-Long series, removing his voice and playing with a guitar player friend with those tracks as the backing tracks. The only processing I've been doing is to take the tracks and move them over to PEAK where I use the Normalise function (at 75%) to try and even up the volumes from track to track. My question for the collective minds on the Unicornation forum is: Is there any processing I should be adding to these tracks while they are still in DP? It's always acoustic bass and jazz drums. Because these things are mixed with drums down the middle and Bass all the way left and Piano all the way right I feel like when I use just the Bass side, I'm only getting half the drums.

jonotron · Post by **jonotron** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:00 pm

Unless Jamey has the drums in mono you can't do a whole lot. For jazz you only need to hear a ride or hihat anyway!

kassonica · Post by **kassonica** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:56 pm

hi.

I have many of those disks and they are unreal. A great way to practice also you can record yourself as you go. One thing i used to do was put the trim plugin on the insert and narrow the stereo width, which helps quite a lot also i wouldn't use normalize i'd put on the masterworks limiter with some gentle limiting and all should be fine.

P.S just out of interest, which one's do you have.

Kassonica