[LAU] classical concert needs mixing/mastering

[Grammostola Rosea]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04:19PM +0100, garry Ogle wrote:
>
>   
>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>     
>>> My sister did an great project with here school as a music teacher. See 
>>> let her students perform an classical concert. They played Haydn.
>>>
>>> The recording is done with an zoom H2 I think. I was wondering if its 
>>> possible to improve the sound and how?
>>>
>>> Which apps and which plugins?
>>>
>>> If an experienced mixer would take look at it, would be great.
>>>       
>
>   
>> I certainly can't claim be experienced or any kind of expert, but I like 
>> this kind of problem!
>> To my ears the room colouration has made the recording sound a bit 
>> "boxy". Try using jamin to gently cut some of the mid-range 600hz-1200Hz 
>> approx.
>>     
>
> It sounds like it was recorded in a very reverberant space,
> possibly a church or large chapel. With orchestra and choir
> you'd want the mic to go something like 3-4 m high, which is
> sort of impractical with a Zoom.
>
> Some EQ will improve it, you need to
>
> - attenuate the LF, either a shelf filter
> or a parameteric with F = 30 Hz, BW = 4,
> and gain of around -4 dB
>
> - attenuate the mid range around 900 Hz, 
> using a parametric set to that frequency,
> BW = 1.3, gain -6 dB.
>
> - boost th HF, using a parametric with 
> F = 10 kHz,  BW = 3, gain = +5 dB.
>
> (BW are expressed as relative, as e.g. for
> my 4-band EQ plugin).
>
> That's all you can do to it, the mic was in the
> wrong place and you can't correct that afterwards.
>   

Thanks guys! I'll check the different suggestions, really appreciate it!

@ Fons, You mean you enable filter, section 1 (LF), section 2 (mid 
range) and section 4 (HF) in the 4-band EQ plugin?

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