The “They are here” vs “You are there” sound topic

But this is a stretch assignment since from what I can tell just about nobody here has a spl meter....

For the adventure get a zoom H6, and a guitar ( I myself like Taylor - the hometown team ) or a cymbal, tambourine, etc and capture some original acoustic events with venue 1

for the digital agnostics a small cassette tascam or better yet a Revox A-77 ( it was good enuf for Lonesome Bob and the Band after all ) should suffice. 

Also, unless your listening chair is bolted down, you can change the ratio between first venue and 2nd....

IF you want first venue to survive steep slopes and wiring the midrange out of phase and lots of negative feedback ain’t your friends 

While you can’t be there for the original event, I will continue to beat the 2L drum ( Grammy winners now ) drum ....

It all starts with microphone choice, then placement in the studio or performance space. Of course it’s an illusion. Some of us, who are not just flavorizing and chasing the tail, have carefully recorded references of original acoustic events. Even the simplest chain has an incredible amount of variables....

with small chorale groups, I try this experiment... let them help pick microphone placement by recording a bit and then pulling them out one at a time to hear playback in the reverberat space but in the near field... the first comment is “ we don’t sound like that “, then I switch to the near field overhead mic tracks... and the answer is we sound like that... then I have them sing again, missing a performer who stands where the House array is.,. The answer is, ya we sound like that, from here!