On 3 April 2012 18:05, Brad Walton <gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > On the weekend I recorded two pieces in a professional recording studio. I .. > On the recording, the sound of the theorbo is very tinny and distorted, and > bears almost no similarity to the natural/ acoustic sound of the instrument.
So much for the 'professional recording studio' ... What is more important than the studio or the equipment, is the ear of the engineer. What does he want to record? If he has a preconceived idea of what a theorbo should shound, that is what he will put on tape. So, talk to the man, play for him, let him listen to what you think your theorbo should sound like. Listen to the test recordings, discuss things you would like differently, and keep coming back till you're both happy. Setting up the mics just rigth can take a lot of time, but it is time well spent. I have made many recordings, over 30 cds with many different profffessional engineers with _very_ fancy mics, and many more recordings with less professional people with very ordinary mics, but the people I could talk to, and discuss with what I like about my sound, made the best recordings, whatever their equipment. There is no one way to record a lute. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
