Don Pearce wrote:

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Try this. This me in my local church, which is closed for refurb. Just
a pair of mics stood in the nave. Sorry about the playing - I
completely screw the timing at one point (I blame Claire who was
turning pages for me).

Anyway, this is totally raw - no compression or anything.

https://soundcloud.com/donpearce/widor-toccata



** Wow - Don can really play !!!!

Plus a rather nice recoding of a sweet sounding instrument.

Please tell us something about it - Don.

The Bach T&F is well worth a listen too.

Talk about " hiding your light under a bushel " !!



Thanks...

Kind of a bog standard three manual church organ from the late
Victorian period. It had its manual bellows replaced by a motor in the
early fifties, so I never got to play it hand-cranked. But they did
know how to make nice instruments around the 1880s. I think it got
tuned up and serviced about five years ago.

Vox Humana and Diapason are its strong voices and I used both on these
recordings.


** Must sound spectacular live in the actual church.


The recording was made with a pair of Rode NT1-A cardioids in a rough
ORTF arrangement.



** Good Aussie built mics used cleverly !!

OFTF is a variation on the famous "Blumlein pair" method which gives natural sounding ambience to a recording.

Even on my PC speakers, the "sound" of the church was obvious.

Nice going.



...... Phil