[Gaston69]

Hi Gearslutz,

I need some advice/help.

Last friday I recorded a classical group of 7 musicians playing barok on string instruments like lute and mandoline and flute from the 16 & 17th century. The venue was a small Luthers Church with very very nice acoustics and was loaded with approximatly 150 people (almost sold out).
My mic stand was approx 4 meters in front of the group and about 3 meters high, and the audience was just sitting behind my mic stand, unfortunatly one listener hit the stand with her foot during the show (shit happens).
On the stand I had mounted 2x Bruel & Kjaer DPA 4006 A/B 60cm which run into my AMEK DMCL pre-amp and all recorded in Logic 8 and parralel to my DAT in case my Macbook would crash. Due to the level of applaus my average recording levels were about -20/-12 db.

Now I am home and listening to it I can hear quit a lot of noise such like:

Back ground noise from audience.
Noise from the microphones/equipment.
Sub-Lows from cars passing the church.
People entering the church (slamming doors, however it's far in the back ground)

I tried X-Noise from Waves, Low Cut, R.Compressor, L2 and it did toke away a lot of noises and it pulled up the levels to a 0.2dB however it doesn't sound like classical music anymore i.e. it start sounding to compressed, not open anymore, loosing 3D etc etc.

Currently I am mixing in the box with Peak, Logic 8, Waves Platinum.

Can you give me some advice on how:

Pull up levels
Denoising (using above mentioned plug-ins?)
Maintaining it's 3D panorama, life

The music is played very nice, acoustics fantastic, the mics picked up the vibes and ambience perfect however I need to find a way to make a good professional CD for this band.

Please share your ideas with me because the music is it worth, lates I will post some takes.

Thanks,

Gaston