"Recipe for a great solo lute sound: one good mic, a pair of good ears, a brain in your head and just a touch of reverb for seasoning.
Chris Christopher Wilke" Why the touch of reverb ? A tribute to the old recordings your speaking of ? ;-))) About Youtube, I don't think it is a media for quality (even not Vimeo or other) but a media for promotion of the instrument, then people can know it exists (many don't, except in video games of fantasy or Tudor's series...), then they can look for recordings (and about recording CD, I agree with the discussion, a lot can be done...) and then they look for an instrument, and the EMS lutes, even their poor quality, is the gate for many to start playing. (many whitnesses on the comments and private messages I receive) Val ;-) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
