On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Rob MacKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really sorry if all this recording-reverb discussion is boring some > of you - it usually bores me, so I apologise.
Remember when I bored the list to death with my recording experiments? Your collected patience helped me a lot. It's still on-line, btw, at: http://home.planet.nl/~ooije006/david/homerecordings_f.html (Warning: be prepared to be bored to death for a second time, but perhaps reading it through will give you an idea what to try next, or what experiments you can safely skip.) > Before that is a number of versions of another performance of the same > piece, some at 2 feet distance, some at 2 metres. My preferences so far: 2 meters no reverb 2 feet no reverb Are the recording levels on the H2 automatic or can you adjust them? I feel the level is not optimal in the take at 2 meters, and there's a lot of rumble/breathing on the track. Room for improvement, then. Are these directional mics or omnidirectional? You might get more natural reverb by raising the mics and by pointing them more upwards. My experiments came up with different optimum angles for different instruments, even. Of all the takes with added reverb, I disliked the Lexicon 480 the least. The Sony 77 already felt too much. The jcc was cute, actually, don't know if that's positive, but that's how it felt to me. Lexicon had a more 'professional' feel to it, as it kept more of the direct sound in the balance. The jcc puts you further away. I can imagine if you're used to reverb you cannot live without, but you might try. Anyway, reverb added to MP3 doesn't quite seem to work. Better add it to the WAV-file before compressing to MP3. The WAV is much better than the MP3. Always judge your takes from the WAV-file, the MP3 is just the commercial downgrading. I suppose there are tricks to improve MP3. Danny's inverted smile did something. good luck, it can be depressing, endless testing when you actually just want to play 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
