**bg** wrote:

[ provocative writing mode ON in spite of the poster followed up to
actually being a nice person, anything to get a debate over audio
instead of having people stray off into the bushes ... O;-) ]

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.

Hmmm .. obviously to get the sound of a piano in a hall, record a piano
in a hall. The next best thing can be to fake it, in which case
multitracking a close and a far pair in the available room can be
helpful. On one occasion I got decent results when trying a combination
of close miking and playing the off tape monitoring signal over
loudspeakers in the room to provide the illusion of something larger
than a living room.

Close micing. Suggestions to mic from great distances are,
ahh, something to do with pulling your leg.

Not "great distance", rather "appropiate distance". And Scotts
suggestion is not about leg pulling, it is about a novel way of
recording that is not yet fully understood: stereo.

That said, I was somewhat surprised over the suggested distance, until I
remembered the increase in distance that is likely to be required when
using figure of eight's compared to cardioids due to the narrower slice
of the room they record. It is all about direct vs. reflected and you
aint getting no good imaging if you aint got none of da reflected.



Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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