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Re: Recording Imbalance?

Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2010-12-29 21:22

Robin,

Attenuation is a built-in limiter on the mics they use to try and avoid clipped signal inputs (too much signal level causing distortion) on consumer-grade A/V recorders.

Perhaps you can give something like this a try:

........ Speaker..........Monitor..........Speaker
.............angled........................angled
...................to H4................to H4

.............................H4 (forgive dots... trying to format and losing it over spaces being contracted.)

Try your 90 degrees xy pattern.
The H4 should be at same height as speakers, or close to that.
The xy pattern uses /\ placement where pointed end of the inverted V is
toward the sound source. From a triangle of equal proportions using speakers and H4. I can only type a 60 degree image here, so 90 will be a more obtuse angle for the V.

The mics are producing a cardioid or hyper-cardiold pattern that overlap in space. That zone picks up the sound directly, and it tries to reject other sounds that are off-axis (out of the zone). If you can choose the mic pattern, try cardioid.

Wicki mic patterns and you will find nice graphs of the patterns. In reality they are 3 dimensional space concerns, and the graphs usually look 2 dim. But they are informative.

Play back computer at 75 - 80% of volume
Record just the accomp. adjusting input levels to high but not peaked and play back
Repeat until good strong non-peaked (distorted) piano is recorded.

Once happy with that, position yourself a couple feet behind the monitor mid field between the speakers.

Sorry if you have to move a desk out from the wall or something like that.

Experiment a few times and play back. You will find a suitable compromise in just a few tries.

Remember that fun I promised? This is it. Good luck.

Post Edited (2010-12-29 21:29)

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