Hi Romilly,
Try adding a touch of compression and a nice parametric eq used delicately
before adding the reverb. The compression should bring a more focus sound
whereas the eq will allow you to accent the warm. Then you can have some fu=
n
with the reverb, although in my experience adding reverb to a recording tha=
t
already has room ambience is very difficult. If your recording is full of
the room ambience, there may not be much you can do to get it to sound like
it was recorded in a concert hall. Those ghost echoes from the corners will
haunt you ;^)
Best,
Mark R.
On 12/3/05, Romilly Hambling <> wrote:
>
> Sorry this is some way off-topic, but I believe there are quite a few her=
e
> who have experience of music recording.
>
> My friend is recording songs by Faur=E9 and Debussy, so me and my Portadi=
sc
> 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 th=
e
> $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 ever=
y
> 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
>
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
>
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