Hi,
I need some help. I'm recording myself on a grand playing classical music.
I have a Lavry Blue A/D to a computer, and a pair of Coles 4040 mics which
I'm using in Blumlein configuration. The room is 13x24x9, with the piano
against one of the short walls, and the walls have eye level wood paneling
with a lath/plaster ceiling and wood floors. The preamp is presently a
crummy 'Audiobuddy' (really bad), as I finish my custom designed and
built tube based preamp.

The problem is that what I get really sounds bad, more so than warrented
by the crummy preamp. A couple of Cardoids pointed at the piano sounds OK,
but spacing the Blumlein pair about 8 feet way sounds bad. It gets mushy,
some notes boom out, and other things.

Obviously the room is having an effect, but I've tried putting up a blanket
behind or to the sides of mic, to damp the room out, but it didn't seem to
make too much difference. Moving the mics around doesn't seem to make a
tremendous difference either.

Any suggestions on a good way to either improve the room, or better mic
positions, or something else? Most suggestions I've gotten so far have
been for close micing, but that's more appropriate for rock I believe.



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