This was recorded in a medium sized chapel roughly 70 feet wide and 150 feet deep, with a balcony that overhangs about 50 feet from the rear of the room. I used a pair of MXL 990 large diaphragm condenser microphones and a Zoom H6 portable recorder with the M/S attachment. The MXL 990’s were mounted in a spaced pair, halfway between where the stage ended and where the overhang of the balcony began and about 10 feet above the ground. Roughly 12 feet in front of them, closer to the stage I had a video camera and my H6 recording both the audio from its M/S attachment which was roughly 6 feet above the ground and the spaced pair at the rear of the room.

In my editing software, I used the spaced pair as an analog source for the reverb in my session and began decoding and processing the M/S recording from my H6. There is no processing in the reverb. On my M/S file, I first used the noise reduction plugin X-Noise. I programed Waves X-Noise to a sample of room noise that I recorded 30 minutes prior to the concert. Even with this reduction, I was hearing some more high-frequency noise so I inserted another noise reduction plugin, Waves W-43 which is a more simple, 4 band noise reduction plugin. After further reducing specifically the high band I was satisfied with the source. I then used the Waves S1 Imager plugin to decode my M/S track to a Stereo Mix. This was set to a degree angle of slightly more than 100º. After that, I used Waves plugin, Scheps Omni Channel to apply Preamp Saturation, EQ and Compression. The preamp saturation was set saturate the odd harmonics by 22.8%. My EQ was set with a High Frequency Shelf at 4.3khz boosting by 5.6 dB and a wide bell set to boost at 329 Hz by 1dB.

I then mixed the sound of the rear mics and the more direct M/S source to my preference. On my Master Fader, I placed a Simple Limiter set to a ceiling of -0.5 dB. After that I had a metering and imaging plugin, Insight 2, to show me a LUFS meter for me to mix to the standard of our platform. To slightly normalize the sound of the recordings, I actively wrote automation data for the threshold of the limiter before Insight 2 to help me raise levels as I monitor the active LUFS level of my edits. After that, my mix was completed.