hmm, bill gave us a zen koan to play with..
ronny, kudos, and good to discuss.
without instructions, much is up to taste.
* ok, I should bring my tape hiss library from the basement
the tradeoff is obvious, we can have it clean, with a good hihat, and no artifacts - any two of them!
I chose for more openness and a nice hihat. personally, I don't mind a little hiss in old recordings, I prefer to get the maximum of the information that has survived. to me, most denoisers sound very ugly or make it dull when they are adjusted for a bigger impact. also in a non-audiophile surrounding, the noise wouldn't big time disturb, it's mostly on the high end.
still it is true, that another pass with a well-chosen tape noise model would improve the thing remarkably.
* I'd like to remind that nowadays a big number of listening systems have a single bass woofer.
bill and I have tried very similar: we collapsed the stereo width for the bass. so this is what we get. the nice harmonics that make the bass clear and precise, are anti-phase, and the resonance is mostly straight. so some results are very good, where the contributors have time/phase-shifted parts of the bass spectrum. this time, I left that out, - will need to find me a generic allpass to check around. I think, here it is better than time-shifting the LF.
lee: I like the bass drum! in my perception the low end is somewhat too much, but with a good structure, so it is easy to attenuate.
btw, reminds me of a theater hall, where a friend of mine was the audio operator, and the famous sound company had installed the speaker cabinets with a mis-connected bass woofer on one side.