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On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 04:07:31 -0700 (PDT), "
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Tobiah wrote:
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Seriously though, my only criticism would be that this is a little too
close-miked. This kind of performance needs air and I would have moved
the mics back to somewhere between six and ten feet, depending on the
quality of the room.


Yeah, I was probably a foot away from the mics. I'm in a bedroom with
little treatment in a residential area, but I'll try a little more distance.


** Though Don's comment is quite reasonable in terms of normal recording practice, your close up, near anechoic method is valid.
If heard via headphones or in a well damped room ( quite rare) it sounds too dry - in an average conditions with considerable reverberation bouncing around instruments sound like they are right in the room with you.

For a solo instrument or voice, this is not all bad.


This is a dilemma as old as recording. Do you record dry and allow the
result to sound like it is being played in the listeners room, or do
you record an acoustic that overlays the listener's space and
simulates a different environment? Providing the environment is the
normal choice, because the listener can always deaden a space. Making
a small listening room live is almost always doomed to a booming,
mode-bound failure.

d

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