Mixing out the echo chamber

[bvdp]

I did a nice gig the other night for a ballroom dance group. The only problem was the hall -- a old community hall with a half barrel ceiling and absolutely no sound baffles. I could heard some of the percussion sounds from my synth minutes after they sounded (okay, an exaggeration).

I recorded the who gig on my H4 and spent an hour this afternoon extracting the songs from the big track. I adjusted the volume, but that's all.

Do you think there is anything I can do to mix-out some of the hollow sound? Or should I just leave it as it is. Certainly, I'm not going to get rid of the talk or other noise.

I just want this a record of the gig. I'm not planning on selling copies or anything like that.

One track, Winter Wonderland, is at: http://mellowood.ca/music/recordings/winter.mp3

Oh, BTW, I'm playing the sax; everything else is MMA though a Casio synth. Look forward to your help. For my mixing I'm using aduacity.

Bob.

[Oren]

Good recording - great performance! The reverb stays, but some creative EQ work can perhaps minimize the frequencies where the biggest part of the room ambience lives. Rooms will have pitch and tone characteristics that can be ferreted out and attenuated without affecting the rest of the mix over-much. Experiment running the graphic EQ plug a few times through with different settings to see if you can locate and minimize the room effects.

By and large, it sounds good as-is. Snappy sax chops, fella!

[kara]

You should keep it Bob.
It's a live recording and it sounds live 

k

[bvdp]

Thanks for the nice words! I'm quite pleased with the performance myself ... should keep this as a secret, but things weren't going well that night: My wife (who is supposed to be singing) came down with pneumonia, the event organizer fell down her basement stairs and is the hospital with a broken arm and an injured back; and I was suffering from a terrible head cold which I'd medicated so I could play.

When I heard the recordings I was amazed that my intonation was decent and that I'd not played too many bad notes Funny, isn't it, how sometimes it all just works.

Oh, and isn't the H4 just a niffty but of kit!

Best,

[rharv]

Very nice, there is nothing in here that can't be fixed with EQ and a little enhancement.

[folderol]

I agree with Rony. Leave it as it is. It's obvious it's a live recording (and a pretty decent one at that).

P.S.
Nice variations on the sax