Thomas Schall wrote:
I really enjoyed listening your performance and I liked the setting, too.
What has been the recoding setup? I never seem to get the lute
sounding so natural on my (home) recordings *sigh*
And Anton a big thanks for producing and making this settings available.
All the best
Thomas
I'm glad you thought that the sound was OK. I just used a multi-track
recorder and a sound editing program. I'd be very grateful for any tips.
There are discussions about recording on this list every so often but
usually by professionals (players and people with experience of
professional recording). And recording would seem to be very complicated
and very expensive. (Was a recent discussion on about using 5 hugely
expensive mics to record just one lute?). I don't doubt that
professional-level recording is very complex and expensive and
professionals will want the best sound possible.
For multi-tracking I use a Zoom PS-04. The model isn't made any more and
it uses SmartMedia cards which aren't sold any more. It is probably
recording at a very low bit or byte or whatever, level. It's a portable
device but I've never used it anywhere other than at home. There are
lots of little devices like this (probably better than the PS-04) and
you can pick up used ones on ebay.
I just use the internal mic on the PS-04 and play from a couple of feet
away. You can fiddle around with the recording on the device itself but
it is much easier to put the recording on a computer. The program
"Audacity" is free and, I think, would do the job. I use an old version
of Audition. Then 'normalise' each track, add a bit of reverb (!) and
try and remove some noise. I really don't know what is good or bad
practice with panning - I just move the two tracks apart which improves
the sound immensely. The two tracks playing together, in mono, sound
pretty bad.
Stuart
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