12-11-2014, 03:45 AM
Yeah, just ditch the room mics. IMO it's impossible to get an immediate, intimate sound out of those. Especially solo vocals hate the roomy sound. I guess I sound a bit provocative when I say that some engineers have this wet dream where the music comes together with only room mics. Maybe it works for classical music but even the Sinatra stuff feature close mics blended tastefully together; if nothing else then the lead vocal mic 
Also we must remember these Telefunken sessions have quite a lot of mics setup simply for showcase and sometimes for very little function.
To me it seems the addition of the room mics is the main source of clutter in your mix. After you've taken them away you can feature some of the bottom end of the acoustic guitars more liberally (maybe keep it under control with some dynamic EQ?), which might solve the low mids issue. To me the issue seems to be lack thereof low mids.
More a matter of taste but you could pan the acoustic guitars fully to sides to achieve a bigger sound; the leakage will blend everything together to create a coherent sound even then.
Also we must remember these Telefunken sessions have quite a lot of mics setup simply for showcase and sometimes for very little function.To me it seems the addition of the room mics is the main source of clutter in your mix. After you've taken them away you can feature some of the bottom end of the acoustic guitars more liberally (maybe keep it under control with some dynamic EQ?), which might solve the low mids issue. To me the issue seems to be lack thereof low mids.
More a matter of taste but you could pan the acoustic guitars fully to sides to achieve a bigger sound; the leakage will blend everything together to create a coherent sound even then.