Aside from recording at 192kHz with the highest quality mics and recorders, how do you reinvigorate your pitch shifted slowed down/varispeeded sounds after they've lost most (or all) of their airy top end? (Varispeed, meaning slowing down playback in Soundminer, or using Pitch n' Time in Varispeed mode.) This effect is über-bad when pitching down with older recordings or material from CD libraries.) libraries. I find myself reaching for a basic EQ at times like this, boosting all I can get with a high-shelf from 5khz and up. What are your thoughtstechniques?

CLARIFICATION:

I should have said pitch shifting as in VARISPEED, ie. slowing down playback in Soundminer thus affecting pitch, or using Pitch n' Time in the Varispeed mode. This obviously changes the length of the file so making a duplicate and high-passing it

Original question asked how to retain the original high frequencies would not work.

OK, resume your thoughts!

PS> Great comments so farwhen pitching down a file, definitely useful for files that have been pitched rather than slowing down but retain a file, thus the same lengthearlier answers.

Aside from recording at 192kHz with the highest quality mics and recorders, how do you reinvigorate your pitch shifted sounds after they've lost most (or all) of their airy top end? (This effect is über-bad when pitching down older recordings or material from CD libraries.) I find myself reaching for a basic EQ at times like this, boosting all I can get from 5khz and up. What are your thoughts?

CLARIFICATION:

I should have said pitch shifting as in VARISPEED, ie. slowing down playback in Soundminer thus affecting pitch, or using Pitch n' Time in the Varispeed mode. This obviously changes the length of the file so making a duplicate and high-passing it to retain the original high frequencies would not work.

OK, resume your thoughts!

PS> Great comments so far, definitely useful for files that have been pitched down but retain the same length.

Aside from recording at 192kHz with the highest quality mics and recorders, how do you reinvigorate your pitch shifted sounds after they've lost most (or all) of their airy top end? (This effect is über-bad when pitching down older recordings or material from CD libraries.) I find myself reaching for a basic EQ at times like this, boosting all I can get from 5khz and up. What are your thoughts?