Last night I bootlegged John McLaughlin and his latest electric project, the Fourth Dimension. I was in a great old concert hall, floor seats, just to
the right of the soundboard. Lots of great stereo imaging, and not too much hall echo thanks to being located just under the first balcony.
If you like jazz-fusion, check it out and please give me some feedback on my question below. One track in flac
format at:
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/b2a3ex It's also seeding in 16bit FLAC form over at Dime.
I have kept the original .wav files for burning to cdr, and because I'm not happy yet. Below is my question.
Do you think the overall stereo field is too wide and diffuse? Is there some weird phasing going on? I had small cardiods clipped to my shoulders, and I think the resulting pattern is a bit too spacious. I'd love to somehow focus things down a bit, and retrieve more of the stereo imaging that was going
on at my seat, drums panning across as the guy went through his toms, fast panning synth sounds, etc. I've honestly never heard that much beautiful stereo from a PA in a live show like that, and am wondering why I didn't get more of it with my equipment.
Sound Forge's pan/expand plugin is too drastic, at least using it's presets. Is there a way to specify the amount of narrowing to the stereo field?
I need maybe half the amount the narrowing preset applies.
I was a bit to the right of dead center, so I'd like to have my recording actually focusing a little better in the center between the two speakers. Does anybody know if that is possible to do in post?
Anyway, if you give it a listen and have some feedback, I'd really appreciate it.
Chris
Topic: fiddling with stereo field in post-production???? (Read 2094 times)