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RE: Steemit Open Mic Week 43: J. S. Bach Lute Suite 1 BWV 996 Allemande
very nice, im a classical guitarist myself. very dark sounding guitar, did you tune down or is it just mix placement? i recommend to use another room mic and maybe a close mic to get a wider and clearer sound. in addition you could make use of noise cancellation software like lets say RX6 denoise.
Nice to meet a classical guitarist anyway!
Thanks, nice to meet you too! It was tuned down. There's a minor structural problem so I didn't want to put too much tension on the bridge. It's tuned to A standard. This is a new room and I've never recorded tuned this low before. It's very quite. I should have listened to how that placement sounded before, but I get lazy with video. I'm also going to upgrade in a while to using a matched pair of small condensers. Thanks for the software suggestion, I typically can get the noise pretty low if I get the placement right, but if I'm satisfied that a noise cancellation plug-in does the job without reducing what limited fidelity I have that might be the ticket.
thanks for your detailed answer. the two condenser mics will be perfect i guess, just find an angle where you capture more high frequency content. i pretty much like the dark tuning, but its problematic to record. as long as the performance is good, im content anyway. Love Bach, my favorite classical artist of all time. Structured but anything else than boring!
awesome, he's always been my favorite composer as well! It's hard for me to even practice anything else. I've been working on the Fugue from the 2nd lute suite BWV 997 and I'm hoping to have that ready for one of these open mic videos in the next week or so. Yeah the tuning is way too low, there's almost no high frequency to work with at that point. I had it tuned a bit higher in some earlier videos and it came out a bit better. Also there's almost no tension and the tone is muted for the most part. I don't really feel comfortable tuning it any higher until I fix it. I'd tried to EQ some more highs in there, but it just made the noises louder without enhancing the sound.
i can try to fix the sound files for you, if you feel the need to. get the best out of em. free of charge of course
Much appreciated! I'll let you know if I need some help.
I'd totally prefer to just get a solid sound file in the first place, but that may not always be possible. In any case, I can easily do better than the sound on this one by simply doing a few test recordings before doing the actual performance. That and waiting till my new guitar comes in the mail that isn't broken... hopefully. I think they use FedEx so, who knows.