Hi David - I've been following this with some interest. I find your completely dry recordings too dry, and I have to say that I find the more distant micing too muddy (I'm looking for clarity in the music, not realism of the listening experience). In post-production I find SIR or other processing useful because of its ability to fine tune the mix of dry and ambient "signals". But I agree that for the lute SIR seems not quite right compared with real room ambience.
I didn't see the following approach discussed: rather than record a stereo signal, use one mike close and the other far, then select the desired dry/ambient mix in the final stereo master. I'm curious how this would sound with your home recordings. Of course having 4 mics for stereo close and ambient recording would be best for this purpose, but it would be interesting to see what you can do with two mikes. Just a suggestion. I've been enjoying your playing with all your mic arrangements. Steve On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:23 AM, LGS-Europe wrote: > I like the technology behind and the sound of impulse response reverb: > recreate the sound of an existing room and use that to add reverb. > Very > natural. But my playing is not in that room, so I play differently. > Said > differently: it's easier for the ear with the reverb, but not more > musical. > A delicate touch of reverb to make it more smooth is no problem, of > course, > but if it's not needed, I think it would be better and at least > easier in > some respects. So, back to the drawing board. > > I unplugged the refrigirator and the air circulation again and sat > myself > with lute in the living room. Peter Philips on the music stand and > mics with > omni caps and much further away and higher this time. It's not a > church, but > not as dry as a studio either. Listen for yourself at: > > http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/david/homerecordings_f.html > > As usual: comments welcome. > > David > > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --- http://homepage.mac.com/stevepur --
