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jhazelbaker · 29th January 2007

Tamas, I'm definitely leaning towards a pseudo ORTF for the overheads, basically aiming for the corners of the kits and centered over snare. I always tend to favor coincident and near coincident pairs over spaced for overheads, simply for phase-accuracy, but the wider coverage helps spread the stereo image quite a bit. I just looked up goniometer (why have I never heard that term before?) I'm assuming it's like the stuff used in the Waves analyzers?

Jules, your concerns are definitely at the forefront of mine as well. We'll be doing some more testing to make sure everything is going to be acceptable during the first day of recording. So far I've only gotten a chance to record the room with a snare and ambient mic. But of the 3 usable rooms in the tower the top is definitely the most appealing. Like I've said before it has great woody decay that while big, is in many ways ideal. I believe it will be controllable, but we will be bringing up quite a few blankets and gobos to isolate the kit as much as necessary. If we do run into trouble, we will still have a few other smaller rooms to fall back on. Crossing our fingers...

Hey Jules (or anyone for that matter) can you recommend any places to pickup big packing blankets or gobos (I have a few decent sized ones and couple of gobos, but I think we'll need some stands and rather big blankets to address any problems that might creep up.)

Thanks again guys...

29th January 2007	#20
jhazelbaker Gear interested Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 8 Thread Starter	Tamas, I'm definitely leaning towards a pseudo ORTF for the overheads, basically aiming for the corners of the kits and centered over snare. I always tend to favor coincident and near coincident pairs over spaced for overheads, simply for phase-accuracy, but the wider coverage helps spread the stereo image quite a bit. I just looked up goniometer (why have I never heard that term before?) I'm assuming it's like the stuff used in the Waves analyzers? Jules, your concerns are definitely at the forefront of mine as well. We'll be doing some more testing to make sure everything is going to be acceptable during the first day of recording. So far I've only gotten a chance to record the room with a snare and ambient mic. But of the 3 usable rooms in the tower the top is definitely the most appealing. Like I've said before it has great woody decay that while big, is in many ways ideal. I believe it will be controllable, but we will be bringing up quite a few blankets and gobos to isolate the kit as much as necessary. If we do run into trouble, we will still have a few other smaller rooms to fall back on. Crossing our fingers... Hey Jules (or anyone for that matter) can you recommend any places to pickup big packing blankets or gobos (I have a few decent sized ones and couple of gobos, but I think we'll need some stands and rather big blankets to address any problems that might creep up.) Thanks again guys...