How to remove "Brightness" from a track?

[sixchannel]

I have just recorded a piece ("Tomorrow Never Dies", if you are interested) and the high register parts have turned out a little "Bright".
If I were to go back and start over again, I would have tweaked the Treble SHELVING filter on the Mixer a bit to smooth the 'edge' off. But ,what is done, is done.
How can I do it in my recording software after the event?? I have a 32 band EQ if I want it, but all EQ seems to do in remove VOLUME around the frequency, not the sharp edge.
Any ideas?
PS - what is the actual frequency of 1st string 12 th fret (E) - anyone know??
cheers
Ian

[bill]

Hi Ian,
In the days when I tuned guitars to a tuning fork, the 1st string 5th fret was concert A i.e. 440 Hz, so assuming it still is, the E at the 12th fret 1st string will be 659.2 Hz.

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Ian,
The problem (not a huge one as I see it, although much more difficult to process after the mixdown) is not at the fundamental frequency. I have worked on your track in Sonar 2, and EQ'd it close to mastering flatness, and added a 3 band compressor to deal mainly with the slightly excess highs around 2-3KHz but also to give the track a fuller sound.
The simplest way to correct it would be to use a dynamic process like a de-esser tuned to around 2-3KHz. EQ alone will not help as it will deaden other instruments when they don't need it.
I will try to email the result to you, but it is a large file around 4-5Mb and might not arrive because of that. If it does, and you like the result, I can then tell you more about what I did to it.
Regards,
Charlie

[rogerbayliss]

I use hardware for my recording mixing and mastering and I find Mastering often helps the overall sound more than anything and will have some EQ facility in there as on my Zoom unit. If its just the guitar thats to bright then the EQ on the recorded track would be the way I would think but certainly mastering if it's the whole thing

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Roger,
The track in question is in the sound files section if you haven't seen it or listened to the before and after versions.
I'm not sure that even EQ alone on the guitar track would have been enough as it was only the high notes that were too bright. Dynamic processing at the offending frequencies of around 2-3KHz cured it quite well even though it was applied to the whole track but certainly it would have been better to apply the fix to the guitar track alone, although mastering the whole track was a good thing to do anyway.
Regards,
Charlie