Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04:19PM +0100, garry Ogle wrote: > > >> Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> >>> My sister did an great project with here school as a music teacher. See >>> let her students perform an classical concert. They played Haydn. >>> >>> The recording is done with an zoom H2 I think. I was wondering if its >>> possible to improve the sound and how? >>> >>> Which apps and which plugins? >>> >>> If an experienced mixer would take look at it, would be great. >>> > > >> I certainly can't claim be experienced or any kind of expert, but I like >> this kind of problem! >> To my ears the room colouration has made the recording sound a bit >> "boxy". Try using jamin to gently cut some of the mid-range 600hz-1200Hz >> approx. >> > > It sounds like it was recorded in a very reverberant space, > possibly a church or large chapel. With orchestra and choir > you'd want the mic to go something like 3-4 m high, which is > sort of impractical with a Zoom. > > Some EQ will improve it, you need to > > - attenuate the LF, either a shelf filter > or a parameteric with F = 30 Hz, BW = 4, > and gain of around -4 dB > > - attenuate the mid range around 900 Hz, > using a parametric set to that frequency, > BW = 1.3, gain -6 dB. > > - boost th HF, using a parametric with > F = 10 kHz, BW = 3, gain = +5 dB. > > (BW are expressed as relative, as e.g. for > my 4-band EQ plugin). > > That's all you can do to it, the mic was in the > wrong place and you can't correct that afterwards. > Thanks guys! I'll check the different suggestions, really appreciate it! @ Fons, You mean you enable filter, section 1 (LF), section 2 (mid range) and section 4 (HF) in the 4-band EQ plugin? \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
