New live folk album

Hi everyone,

Here is a live album of my old band that I recorded years ago in another DAW (Cubase) but then never did anything with. Recently, I took the raw stems and put them in Ardour to work on from scratch.

I only had 8 tracks to record to at the time so there were a few compromises that had consequences for mixing later. I was able to use a stem separation tool (not in Ardour though) to clean up some of the composite tracks and balance things much better than I ever could before. There was a lot of drum bleed in vocals and some of the instruments with acoustic pickups standing nearby and I couldn’t get it sounding good, which is why I gave up on it at the time (2012).

I think it has come out quite well in the end, mildly drunken performance notwithstanding :smiley: The band, and the audience, were a few drinks on the way to a New Years Eve celebration by the time we started so its a bit rough and ready in places :beers: :sweat_smile:

Cheers!

Stephen

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Super fun, I like it. Glad you finally got it cleaned up and posted.

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