Sunday, October 19, 2008

Allen Theatre organ recordings and reverb

For some reason the people who make most of the recordings of the Allen Theatre organs want the "pure" George Wright sound without much, if any reverb. As a result almost all of the Allen theatre organ CDs sound harsh and up front, in your face. The other day I purchased a Don Thompson recording on a 311 and it sounded like a cheap electronic in someone's living room. For the heck of it, I played it through my computer and Miditizer reverb system and it sounded 100% better. After some pondering, I figured out how to burn an Allen CD with more reverb and WOW, it sounds great. Something I would play for my friends. It took some time to do so I will not do it with many more, but at least I know how to do it now.. by running it through Audacity with it set as "As I hear it" This means I have have to do it all in real time.

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