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Re: Recording Imbalance?

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-12-29 13:18

Good info!
Yes, your 2 first paragraphs are right.

I don't know what phantom power is, but I did read in the recorder's manual that it does have it. By attenuator, do you mean recording level? Yesterday, I tried using an old Aiwa boombox instead of the computer, it worked a bit better but the volume still had to be at maximum.

I'm really annoyed at the accompaniment CD being so awfully loud to my ears and then so soft on the recording Could the problem bee the small room? My goal is to reproduce the recital hall experience: I have played many times in such conditions and the (real) piano never sounded so blastingly in my ears and so faintly to the audience!

I can adjust the microphone angles to be at 90 or 120 degrees. At 120, the stereo separation is much more distinct, but with less overall impression of a recital hall. I put the recorder between myself and the boombox: the boombox is oriented towards the recorder, but the recorder and myself are facing the side wall. The X-Y disposition of the microphones make the heads face more or less towards the boom box and towards my person (my oboe is facing the side wall, not the recorder).

I'll try playing with my Clavinova: the room is much bigger (20x215 feet) and opens up into other parts of the house making it a much bigger resonating chamber. Perhaps with that and the hardwood floors, I'll be able to stand farther away from the mic and get a better mixing?

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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