budo wrote:sounds great to me! great playing and singing. you're getting excellent recording/production quality here. any further tips about how you handled the post-production would be great.
Oh, thank you very much for listening!
So, to go into more detail about the voice:
M/S sound recording, AKG 414 for the mid and Thomann Retro tube 2 microphone for figure 8.
The advantage of an M/S socket for a small home studio space is still not having a mono sound that is too flat for the voice, which is always a bit dull in classical music, in my opinion.
I have several other solutions for recording (with various microphones like Schoeps or Neuman) but I find that the 414 works very well in relativ proximity.
I used a compressor for the vocal track (LA2A from Waves) to flatten the peaks a bit,
Concerning the piano, I first record it in stopped time, taking the time to touch up or improve, and even to tweak directly in the Daw's midi interface under reaper. Indeed, I am not a professional pianist, and unable to play all that without bug!
Then, I also tweaked the original piano sound quite a bit, to make it plausible with a vocal/piano configuration: it is inserted into a fairly generous auditorium reverb, based on a Boston M7 tweak under Reverberate. It's the same reverb for the voice elsewhere, but with a slightly less strong dosage, to try to play on the relative depth of field between voice and piano.
At the level of the VSTi Pianoteq, I equalized a little to densify the medium, a piano that is therefore a little darker than a typical norm for solo piano but which works for my taste in the very slightly distanced role.
Finally, at the Master level, the addition of a compressor that I really like, Softube CL1B, barely wiggling.
Downsampling 88/24 > 16/44.1 dithering, and
Upgrade for Youtube LUFS standard (here -1 peak and -18 LUFSi)
For the video, these are some of my photos arranged under Da vinci Resolve.
Here it is to be complete...
Last edited by Krisp (15-01-2023 11:45)
