Authentic or broadcast quality?

[keithdhd]

Hi all, hope you can give me some advice. If there's a Taxi listing asking for "authentic" (music such as 1920s guitar blues) but it requires it to be "broadcast quality" what should the production be like? What I mean is, that authentic guitar blues would be recorded with a mono mic in the 1920s and the quality certainly wouldn't be broadcast quality. Should I try to imitate the old recordings or make it nice and digitally clean?Thanks in advance!Keith

[sgs4u]

Quote:Should I try to imitate the old recordings or make it nice and digitally clean?Thanks in advance!KeithHi Keith,Good question. You could call or email the Taxi office to find out. I don't know for sure, but would suggest using the best audio quality you can. You can always edit the original into 1920's sound. Or you could submit both versions... welcome to the Taxi forums!

[mazz]

Hi Keith,If I was interpreting this I would have to say they are looking for authentic style with modern production values. If they want to give it the 1920s audio quality, they can do it in post or request it from you. Good luck and welcome,Mazz

[anne]

Hi Keith - great question and I've wondered about this in several listings. Can you please share the answer when you find out?Nice meeting you - Anne

[billg]

I just had some songs forwarded for a listing wanting authentic 60s stuff and the screener commented that they really sounded like they were recorded "back in the day" so this listing really meant authentic. Safest bet would be to call or email them to make sure but my money would be on authenticity -billg-

[keithdhd]

Hi guys, I emailed Taxi about this particular listing and the chap said they weren't too worried about the recording sounding old but to make sure the performance was excellent.Hope this helps!