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wrote: You’ve not said anything about the space The room is an o
wrote: You’ve not said anything about the space
Does the room really sound good? For a project I have been resea
I found a good example of how to do simple mic placement that wo
I've had a good time recording the musicians last weekend. I tri
Nice work, very balanced. When the singer moved his head to look
I rather liked his voice capture. I loved the ambience - I think
I rather liked his voice capture. I loved the ambience - I think it was dead right for the piece, but I hated the piano. Not the recording of it - but it's one of those instruments that doesn't live happily in the space. Steinways are always a bit bright, and unless you have a space in the church to set up a pair of speakers for playback, you don't notice until you review the recordings. EQ rarely sounds 'right' as a fix for this. It has that right hand jangliness, that probably leaked into the vocals and the pair near the singer.
It has a very nice feel to this recording - quite realistic. That rotten piano (if you can call a very expensive Steinway rotten) wasn't doing the singer or the pianist any favours - but I bet there, you didn't get the warning sounds. Below middle C, it's quite sympathetic, then those little defects leap out and get captured.
Tell us what you would do differently, next time in the same venue and with the same performers (and piano) after you worked on it. Hindsight is great. I'd not have done it the same, so I'm very interested in which mics made the mix and which you discarded when you heard what they captured.
I've not had a chance to try yet, but I bought a set of extension tubes for my 451s so next outing I'm going to be more video friendly - and try not to get mics in shot. A slim tube with the capsule on the end will look much better and 451s sound nice.
I would have liked some mics under the lid of the piano just to
I would have liked some mics under the lid of the piano just to have some more mixing options. I did put 2 akg414 in a kind of blumlein setup in the room to capture the ambiance, but in the mix it was a bit overkill, so I left those out. During the recording I had to concentrate on operating a camera . The Austrian Audio OC818 was in dual capsule mode and gave me something to fiddle in the mix by using the polar designer software. The 2 Neumann KM184 mic's turned out to be more directional which is nice to get a "closer" sound. The next time recording in this room I would separate the singer a bit more more from the piano so there is less spill and more control. On the other hand it can be a tradeoff between camera placement and audiorecording. Well, some lessons learned.
You’ve not said anything about the space, so I’d use the two Neu