I have a Sony ECM 990F stereo mic which my uncle gave me. I plug it into my PCM-D1 digital recorder, which is an improvement over it's built in mics.
Danny On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Arndt <[1][email protected]> wrote: Daniel, I noticed the improvement in sound quality as well in your most recent video. Can you tell us what was the "superior mic" you used? Stephen P.S. You're one of my "lute heros." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Shoskes" <[2][email protected]> To: "wikla" <[3][email protected]> Cc: <[4][email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:44 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Modern lute recordings I've posted several times the processing I use, based on the recommendation of my sound engineer uncle. I apply an "inverted smile" EQ and if I am recording in my small office, I add a small amount of reverb (if I am alone in the house and can record in the big living room the reverb is not necessary). The "inverted smile" corrects for inadequacies in the response of the mic. I was once recorded with a $15,000 mic and that led me to believe that cheaper mic+EQ is very close to the reality captured by the expensive mic and therefore that the EQ isn't "cheating". In my most recent recording, using a superior mic (but not in the thousands of dollars) I thought the sound was much better and only the tiniest adjustment (taking down the highest and lowest bands in the EQ) was needed: [1][5]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2w15WCzoWY Danny (not a "lute hero" but a regular "y-tuber") On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:00 PM, wikla <[2][6][email protected]> wrote: Well, my new "y-tubings" of very variable quality certainly cannot hide anything! ;-) The Zoom O3 hears everything and I play in very dry acoustics... Is it really true that people "y-tubing" - and especially our "lute heroes" making CD's - really add artificial reverb and other machine generated effects to their canned performances? Perhaps that explains something? Just a thought... ;-) Arto -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2w15WCzoWY 6. mailto:[email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
