I loaded the Lavender Audio Hereford Cathedral organ (67 stops) some time ago but I rarely use it because I've never been able to get it to sound right. Comments on here are generally favourable for this organ so it must be something to do with my room acoustics and / or set up. It just doesn't sound as good as the other organs I loaded such as the Caen Cavaillé-Coll and the Zwolle Schnitger which sound amazing and which I tend to play by default. All samples are loaded as 20 bit and above, only the sound effects are loaded as 16 bit to save RAM space (I can only have the 16GB to play with). The audio interface is a Saffire Pro 40.
The 2 main problems are that the stops become muffled sounding in the bottom 2 octaves and become more muffled the lower the note. This goes for all stops such that when you couple a full organ to the pedal, playing a low pedal note just produces a strange moaning sound as though all the top end of the frequency spectrum is missing. Also, the organ has a hollow sound which from previously experimenting with various graphic equaliser response curves and what they sound like, the hollow sound is similar to when there's top and bottom of the frequency spectrum but the mid-range is attenuated. It's like listening to it through a long drain pipe. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?
In my attempts to improve this I've adjusted the Overall Brightness in the organ voicing to ramp up sharply all the notes from middle C downwards so that bottom C has a high brightness level. This had the effect of also increasing the Overall Amplitude so I had to adjust this to ramp down over the same range of notes. After doing this on all stops (it took some time) it sounds a great deal better and I now get a reasonable full organ sound when coupled on the pedals. I also tried upgrading the amplifier for a Cloud CX-A850 which produces a 'bigger' sound but it still has the hollowness to it compared to the other organs. I tried messing with the Lo/Hi EQ settings in voicing but it didn't seem to do anything (I may not have done it correctly, the guide book is a bit difficult to follow what is going on with the 3 different settings).
Can anyone suggest what the problem might be please? I feel like I need to adjust the frequency response with a graphic equaliser, has anybody any experience of using one with HW? Is there such a suitable software application that will adjust all 8 channels without mixing them (as opposed to connecting a separate unit on the audio side which is another possibility)?
Thanks, sorry about the long explanation.
The 2 main problems are that the stops become muffled sounding in the bottom 2 octaves and become more muffled the lower the note. This goes for all stops such that when you couple a full organ to the pedal, playing a low pedal note just produces a strange moaning sound as though all the top end of the frequency spectrum is missing. Also, the organ has a hollow sound which from previously experimenting with various graphic equaliser response curves and what they sound like, the hollow sound is similar to when there's top and bottom of the frequency spectrum but the mid-range is attenuated. It's like listening to it through a long drain pipe. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?
In my attempts to improve this I've adjusted the Overall Brightness in the organ voicing to ramp up sharply all the notes from middle C downwards so that bottom C has a high brightness level. This had the effect of also increasing the Overall Amplitude so I had to adjust this to ramp down over the same range of notes. After doing this on all stops (it took some time) it sounds a great deal better and I now get a reasonable full organ sound when coupled on the pedals. I also tried upgrading the amplifier for a Cloud CX-A850 which produces a 'bigger' sound but it still has the hollowness to it compared to the other organs. I tried messing with the Lo/Hi EQ settings in voicing but it didn't seem to do anything (I may not have done it correctly, the guide book is a bit difficult to follow what is going on with the 3 different settings).
Can anyone suggest what the problem might be please? I feel like I need to adjust the frequency response with a graphic equaliser, has anybody any experience of using one with HW? Is there such a suitable software application that will adjust all 8 channels without mixing them (as opposed to connecting a separate unit on the audio side which is another possibility)?
Thanks, sorry about the long explanation.