I have a CD made by a friend of a band in club - files are .cda format - while the vocals, drums and bass are fine, in the recording the guitars sound as if they are in another room. I was at the show - that is not how they sounded during the set. So - two questions - why would that happen during the recording? and is there any way to bring the guitars up in the existing recorded version?

Thanks - any feedback (pun intended) would be appreciated.

Well unfortunately, unless the recording is available on a multi-track, there's no way of actually singling out the guitars. They could be enhanced slightly with graphic equalizer software as guitars are usually in the mid-range of the frequency spectrum at around about 800Hz. When you do this thought you will also enhance anything else that is in that range so subtlety is the key.

As for the actual recording, it depends on how it was recorded. If it was done via live microphone then you should have recorded exactly what was heard. If it was done through the mixing desk it is possible that the feed to the recorder was set differently to the feed to the speakers or had a noise gate active which would suppress certain frequencies at a predefined level.

Coudn`t have put it better