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Procyon wrote on 4/27/2013, 8:50 PM

You can't "fix" something that's "bad" because there's nothing "good" to work with.  If the vocals and instrumentation are together on the same track, there'd be no way to isolate the vocals anyway.

The only way to "fix" bad vocals is to re-record the vocals using quality equipment and proper technique.

coreyg3031 wrote on 4/27/2013, 9:24 PM

About what I suspected, well considering this album I'm currently working on is from 1960, I guess that's about a hopeless thing!, thanks anyway....

Former user wrote on 4/28/2013, 6:28 PM

Just curious about your problem with a 1960 album....the music and vocals are all together deep inside that squiggly groove that goes around and around the 33 1/3 album....how just the vocals got messd up would have had to been in the recording studio .   Why this album got pressed and issued ....I think I'm mising something    

Procyon wrote on 4/28/2013, 8:43 PM

Gnarly - There are still details we don't know.  We assume he is talking about a vinyl LP and we assume it was commercially made.  Back in the day, there were ways to "cut" your own record.  The big record companies were known for bad pressings, but that came latter when rock music became BIG business.  Back then, reel-to-reel tape was not all that uncommon.

coreyg3031 wrote on 4/29/2013, 12:48 AM

Actually it was a George Jones LP (I dug them out when I heard he passed away the other day), from 1960 when he was on the record label Starday, as far as in country music, to me, they didn't get good sounds until around 1962 or 63, whatever they done in those couple of years to me made a whole new better, clearer, purer sound, especially with the fiddle & steel guitars....but to me, from the mid 60's to the mid 70's was when the records sounded best....