ABSTRACT
Reflections are essential to the sound of a string instrument. It is difficult to make an orchestral string instrument sound natural if it is recorded in a room that is too small or too dead. In a room that is too small the mic placement will be too close in order to eliminate the small room’s undesirable sound, and there is no way to convincingly make it sound less closely miked during mixing. A room that is too dead is an alien acoustic to most musicians, so their performance suffers, and the few artificial reverbs that can take a very dry sound and convincingly make it sound like it was naturally recorded in a larger, more live, space are certainly not stock DAW plug-ins!
