Here’s an extract of what I recorded and mixed on Saturday. As mentioned earlier, this is a pair of very cheap AT-2020 mics in an ORTF configuration into the Steinberg MR816CSX interface into a 10-year-old IBM laptop into Cubase. I did my best mix within Cubase, which consisted primarily of equalization and loudness processing. I also added a touch of reverb – the dress rehearsal didn’t seem to need it, but the concert night was full of warm bodies. Some of them were humming, but the mics didn’t pick it up. But a lot of them were coughing – waiting for the quiet parts, apparently. The loudness processing is through Ozone 5. I did have redundant recording, but I didn’t need it since the main path caught the whole thing. It could be that the other path had better quality, but I’ll never know.
https://soundcloud.com/incontinentals/scheherazade-extract
Would love any comments before I take it down!