There was a fire last night. I posted about it
here. but before that I was calibrating the monitors. I got it sounding pretty good except the was a null between 400-550hz.. I still had the clouds to hand and a few more bass traps and even some Auralex foam thingys if needed. Now we'll see if I can even stay there...
I did have a session Thursday and go to see how the room sounded and I was very pleased. It was some sloppy acoustic folk punk stuff. and the setup was:
1 vocal -Sm7b very close
2 Acoustic Close mic - Oktavamod MXL603
3 midside Room - PPA stereo ribbon mic Mid
4 midside Room - PPA stereo ribbon side
5 duplicated side mic with phase inverted
6 Ambient mic Left - Avenson STO
7 Ambient mic right - Avenson STO
Production was minimal, some compression on the close vocal and guitar mics and some EQ. There may have been some minimal EQ on the Room and ambient mics, but no compression used on either of those mics. The ambient mics were delayed by 20ms. The compression and EQ used was from Metric Halo Channelstrip. with Waves Renaissance Comp on the Master buss. Then Izotope after the fact for the limiter to get the volume up. Banged it all out in about 2-2.5 hours. Oh yea the guitar was a Seagull I borrowed from a friend.
Here is a good example of hearing the ambient mics and room when he gets louder
http://imayellowbelly.bandcamp.com/track/goodnight
If you want to here the whole thing its here:
http://imayellowbelly.bandcamp.com/album/sidewalk-songs