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I've personally found the further away you move, the more LF 'buildup' you get. But its really not buildup... its just a lack of highs to balance it. Highs dissipate sooner.
Right now (and this changes frequently), I love a mix of ortf in the hall and ab closer in. But I use cards in both places. I find that cards with a gradual and pleasant rolloff sound better with the halls I work in than omnis do. With omnis, I've never found a placement that doesn't extremely favor the lows. I always need to eq them later, put a large rolloff in, and it always turns out more of a mess. Cards just give me the sound I'm after right from the start. But they usually aren't more than a few db down even at 20Hz.
There have been a few occassions when the room allowed omnis, and in those cases they sounded great. But I don't think its a miking 'problem' that we have here. I feel that its simply omnis don't work in all places. I've felt that way especially if there's a lot of wood around... just my experience.
In my case, instead of getting bogged down in figuring out the bass problems with omnis after trying them on multiple sessions in multiple configs, I just switched over to cards, despite what everyone will tell you about recording piano. They've sounded great, and I will be hesitant to ever go back to omnis again, unless the room is truely spectacular.
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