Fitz Choir - post-production

OK, I finally opened the Fitz Choir recording in Logic, in ARU Mastering Studio. After a couple of minutes of figuring out how the signal goes around the studio (congratulations to Nick for clear and easy to use layout!), I started listening.

First listen

As I suspected just from listening how the concert sounded live, I discovered quite high frequency content in middle range, between 500Hz and 1.5kHz. I don't quite like records that have too much in there, so I put the recording through TLAudio valve kit.

Compression

I used the compressor just for increasing the levels to drive the EQ. I left the compression ratio at 1:30 and set the threshold so it would work as a limiter for the loudest sounds only. Attack was set to minimum, and release not much longer.

EQ

In the EQ unit, I did some basic adjustments - I took down 600Hz + surroundings, took up what was below 400Hz using shelf EQ, cut off what was below 250Hz using low-cut. Also, I decreased 1kHz with surroundings because I didn't like what was in there.
That all, combined with incredibly warm sound of valves, created beautiful sounding effect. EQ leaves quite a lot of hiss though, which I will have to remove in Logic later.
I am not quite happy with the stereo spread - but as I said before, I didn't want to set the microphones too wide apart in case the audience wasn't quiet enough.

At this very moment, the whole thing is bouncing down to new tracks. I now plan to tweak the result in Logic (possibly use the unprocessed recording with added reverb for applause), split the songs and the whole processing should be over!