03-11-2017, 09:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2017, 05:12 AM by TheNeverScene.)
No idea how to tackle this.
Welcome to my journey of trying to figure this one out. I have put all my mixes back up as per a respected suggestion. Maybe it will help someone along the line.
Mix 9: A picture is worth a thousand words.
Mix 10: The same, less verb...my best yet I think.
Mix 1: Just dove in, lots of odd eqs with steep roll offs and compression...bad.
Mix 2: Same as mix 1, with hi pass adjusted to reduce boom of bad eq'ing.
Mix 3: Doesn't really exist
we've all done that
Mix 4: Referenced several recordings of the same piece. Aborted old eq's, slow roll offs, barely any compression, repositioned spot mics, removed reverb from entire mix and put on hall mics (where it has stayed)...sounding much better
Mix 5: Messing around with VoS Prefix and aligning the L/R channels of the Main, Outriggers and Hall pairs to their respective piano. Did the same with the Piano pair. Meh.
At this point, I was getting frustrated with determining where the instrument sections were on stage. They seemed to come from varying directions and what I pictured as a standard orchestra set up wasn't jiving. So, I went to the Gnessin Academy website and checked out some videos. It was a complete eye opener! If this was performed in the same space, I now understand why the frequencies may be bouncing all over the place...
EDIT: So NOW there are pics of the recording. YAY!
Mix 6: Ditched the alignment thing (for now).Barely any Main pair due to being on the mono side. Focused more on the outriggers and panned things to it. Mix seemed a little off to the right, so panned to the left to try to compensate.
Mix 7: Brought back Main pair, but not much. Tightened up panning of spot mics to center (not much spread at all at this point). Brought back the PreFix on the piano and added a hair of Headcrusher (poor man's Decapitator) just for some weight and to try and make it pop out a little. Added Focrusrite Red style compressor at 50% mix just to hopefully add some girth and glue things together.
Mix 8: Small low cut and hi boost. No other changes.
Don't judge!
Welcome to my journey of trying to figure this one out. I have put all my mixes back up as per a respected suggestion. Maybe it will help someone along the line.
Mix 9: A picture is worth a thousand words.
Mix 10: The same, less verb...my best yet I think.
Mix 1: Just dove in, lots of odd eqs with steep roll offs and compression...bad.
Mix 2: Same as mix 1, with hi pass adjusted to reduce boom of bad eq'ing.
Mix 3: Doesn't really exist
we've all done thatMix 4: Referenced several recordings of the same piece. Aborted old eq's, slow roll offs, barely any compression, repositioned spot mics, removed reverb from entire mix and put on hall mics (where it has stayed)...sounding much better
Mix 5: Messing around with VoS Prefix and aligning the L/R channels of the Main, Outriggers and Hall pairs to their respective piano. Did the same with the Piano pair. Meh.
At this point, I was getting frustrated with determining where the instrument sections were on stage. They seemed to come from varying directions and what I pictured as a standard orchestra set up wasn't jiving. So, I went to the Gnessin Academy website and checked out some videos. It was a complete eye opener! If this was performed in the same space, I now understand why the frequencies may be bouncing all over the place...
EDIT: So NOW there are pics of the recording. YAY!
Mix 6: Ditched the alignment thing (for now).Barely any Main pair due to being on the mono side. Focused more on the outriggers and panned things to it. Mix seemed a little off to the right, so panned to the left to try to compensate.
Mix 7: Brought back Main pair, but not much. Tightened up panning of spot mics to center (not much spread at all at this point). Brought back the PreFix on the piano and added a hair of Headcrusher (poor man's Decapitator) just for some weight and to try and make it pop out a little. Added Focrusrite Red style compressor at 50% mix just to hopefully add some girth and glue things together.
Mix 8: Small low cut and hi boost. No other changes.
Don't judge!