Sorry this is some way off-topic, but I believe there are quite a few here
who have experience of music recording.
My friend is recording songs by Faur=E9 and Debussy, so me and my Portadisc
have been called out of the woods for duty. Microphones are a pair of
Neumann TLM 103s, the "studio" is the pianist's quite small, typical London
two-rooms-into-one drawing room - I'd guess about 12ft by 30ft.
The raw results are very nice, but we need a good reverb filter to add a
touch of spatial depth. We've tried Sound Studio's, Amadeus's and even the
$900 Altiverb plug-in (we work on Macs), but all give results that are
rather unsubtle - they tend to sound as if the recording was made in an
empty space with hard walls! The filters also degrade the quality of the
sound from this nice true mic. Of course we've fiddled with settings every
which way from minimal to moderate.
Anybody have any ideas? We're looking for a reverb filter that'll give a
softer, more sympathetic sound, something more like a recording made in a
small concert hall with bodies and less like one made with an indifferent
microphone in an empty rock chamber. Or is it not possible with software?
Thanks
Romilly Hambling
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