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| Topic: Encoding acoustic music to mp3 |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 8
Views: 864
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:00 pm Subject: Encoding acoustic music to mp3 |
| Not to my knowledge, all MP3 is very ugly. Here's a quote from Warren Ross (hope he doesn't mind me quoting him) on Glenn Meadows mastering board. It shows the lengths some will go to, to improve the ... |
| Topic: Encoding acoustic music to mp3 |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 8
Views: 864
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:54 am Subject: Encoding acoustic music to mp3 |
| Simmo, the encoder in Wavelab is LAME. |
| Topic: Some suggestions needed for invisible microphones... |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 27
Views: 1935
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:16 pm Subject: Some suggestions needed for invisible microphones... |
| Thomas, shotguns are very useful in these situations. The Neumann in particular, sound great for classical music. Because they are commonly used in the TV industry they should be easy to hire. Its rem ... |
| Topic: Choral Recording |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 13
Views: 1328
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:01 am Subject: Choral Recording |
| Here is a sample of the same section with only the Schopes MK21 main pair.....no MS, no Altiverb!! Maybe together we can work our way forward and find out where I went wrong. How does this sample soun ... |
| Topic: Choral Recording |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 13
Views: 1328
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:47 pm Subject: Choral Recording |
| Thanks 0VU it is phasiness that I am hearing as well. There's something not quite right, I thought it was low end gear but with the mics stated, things should sound toghter and more coherent. Is there ... |
| Topic: Choral Recording |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 13
Views: 1328
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:01 pm Subject: Choral Recording |
The main pair were Shoeps MK21 and a Sennheiser MKH30/40 MS pair right infront of the Choir.
Woops! So much for my "low end" comment. Then it must be the hall, there is this thickness, sluggishness ... |
| Topic: Choral Recording |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 13
Views: 1328
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:05 pm Subject: Choral Recording |
Tony, there's a good balance there, but I hear some strange things.
1. The women seem to be coming from the centre left and the centre right, a bit more from centre right. Did you mix a couple of s ... |
| Topic: Must read for classical musicians |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 3
Views: 670
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:25 am Subject: Must read for classical musicians |
Prime material for a reality TV show.
We should graciously allow all those who are utterly hopeless at everything, but who have enormous belief in themselves, an opportunity to be STARS!  |
| Topic: Best reverb for classical music? |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 43
Views: 4228
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:26 pm Subject: Best reverb for classical music? |
They know about the bug with the SK48 (presume its the same with the 24) and are soon to release an update. Then rendering with the plug will be possible inside the DAW.
http://forum.tcelectronic.com ... |
| Topic: Best reverb for classical music? |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 43
Views: 4228
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:13 pm Subject: Best reverb for classical music? |
| Jeremy, I cannot speak for your situation, but I am using the Fabrik R inside the SK48 host. It works flawlessly inside the box in "internal" mode, but is glitchy in "plugin" mode due to a driver erro ... |
| Topic: Orchestra: The Final Frontier |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 61
Views: 4693
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:30 pm Subject: Orchestra: The Final Frontier |
At any rate, I will be doing some 5.1 mixing of the Berlin Philharmonic Tonight, to tomorrow afternoon ...
Is this live? If so you can say hello to my brother in law, Stanley Dodds, in the second v ... |
| Topic: Best reverb for classical music? |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 43
Views: 4228
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:54 am Subject: Best reverb for classical music? |
| There's nothing you can carry in your pocket that will excite a room (concert hall) with enough energy. Even a loud gun is not likely to do it. If you want the response of the room to a symphony orche ... |
| Topic: Best reverb for classical music? |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 43
Views: 4228
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:01 pm Subject: Best reverb for classical music? |
Its only limited by the quality of the impulses, many of which are still not well aquired.
I think this is the biggest problem. What is required to make a good impulse? I'd imagine you'd need a sou ... |
| Topic: Best reverb for classical music? |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 43
Views: 4228
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:54 pm Subject: Best reverb for classical music? |
| They also have great links to impulses of classic units such as Lexicon 960s and Quantec boxes. Most of which are quite true to the original (since, after all, they are impulses of the actual devices ... |
| Topic: Jazz trio w/ DPA 4061s |
DavidSpearritt
Replies: 26
Views: 1987
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Forum: Acoustic Music
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:17 am Subject: Jazz trio w/ DPA 4061s |
| Yes, this is an interesting approach. I see from some YooToob extracts that Patti from Tuck and Patti sings very close into a 4006. She certainly gets a good vocal sound. Why not go silly with it and ... |
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