Topic: Classical recording snafu - tricks on "pulling the sound closer" ?

[Xpanding Man]

Moke, where are you ?

I pulled a darrol anger fiddle ensemble show a month or so ago, and i think i was a little too high , in the auditorium that is.   i'm getting too much of the "room" and not enough of the impact from the instruments..... it sounds a little distant, and the bass is way too 'round'

if this makes any sense and anyone knows a few EQ or other tricks that i can pull off in soundforge, i'm all ears....
it's still listenable, but this show was with bryan sutton, and i'm really wanting to pull his sound in a bit, and tighten up the bass.  the fiddles sound pretty good....high end cutting through ?

thanks, john

[zowie]

For the bass, try a band limited compressor and blending it to mono.
If you would like me to try to screw around with it, send PM me.

For classical recording in the future, try not to be more than 50% away from the stage.

[BobW]

Cool Edit Pro (Adobe Audition) has a noise reduction tool which I have been fiddling with a bit.
Set to -6db and about 20 - 25% it can really put the ambience down and tighten bass by limiting the attack time (it "chips" off the leading edge of the waveform)
Use it with your hands on the controls, and carefully preview first.

Cool Edit has surprized me several times in what it is capable of.  It's simple, but capable.
Sort of like Photoshop Elements, not the full boat, but a lot of neat tricks......and it will open a 3.7 GB .WAV file, neat trick !

Presence is about 3kHz to 10kHz, often used to describe "closeness" to source. Try a gentle +3db curve centered around 6kHz, and an +/- octave wide and see what it does for you.

Good luck and let us know what results you get.