Some of our past recordings sound, well, odd thin, like theyre coming through a plastic tube. Can you fix this?
Its difficult to fix existing recordings that have this problem, but new ones we do will not have that tunnel sound problem. Generally, its caused by a mis-used minimalist two-microphone technique. While purists will swear that two microphones can do the job, from a practical perspective this approach can be more of a disappointment than a joy. Two microphone techniques rely on many factors being exactly right, from the microphones and electronics used, to microphone placement, to the size of the room (and how many audience members are present during the recording), and to the listeners playback system and their room! One of these being out-of-kilter will contribute to poor sound quality. Many subtle aural cues must be captured and perfectly reproduced to make the two-microphone approach work. We take a different tact for most of our acoustic recordings done in a concert setting. We indeed use a main stereo field (mid-side, ORTF, XY, to name just a few methods), but we reinforce delica
