Thanks for those suggestions, though before trying I'll have to
ask what a parametric eq (plug) is if it's not an x-band equaliser.
I should add that the original recordings are really very nice.
There's almost no apparent input from the room, and certainly no
stridency. The singer is about 4 ft from her mic, and the other mic
is 7-8ft from the midpoint of the piano frame at the keyboard end
(main part of piano lid is shut with just the end flap open). So the
problem is that it's like recording a bird fairly close - you just get
the voice with little or no supporting ambience - and this singer
would like her voice cushioned with a little ambience as the
human singing voice is best heard like some birds' voices . . .
with echo or resonance! The piano's fine as it's mostly gentle
mushy stuff, a sort of running colour wash of sound, that only the
french can do!
So it's the filters that are damaging what start off as very pleasing
recordings. I have to say they (filters) are impressive though! We
were expecting some small-room ambience to remain, but it
doesn't happen that way. It's as if the walls of the room
disappear to be replaced altogether by a much larger space. It's
the nature of that larger space that we want to change. I suppose
it needs damping, softening, hence the remark about the effect
of bodies.
Anyway, we'll give Mark and Rob's suggestions a good tryout.
Romilly Hambling
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