23 Apr
2009
23 Apr
'09
6:35 a.m.
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.
CIao,
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