Oddities of playing in a reverberant space
The people in these sound and video clips, their clothes, bags and musical instruments all soak up sound. So the more people there are in the reverb chamber, the less reverb they can make. We had a small audience during our first jam, for example, so the reverb on that recording is quite short. Compare it to the reverb when Mike's alone, playing the whirlie. We had very long reverbs in our first audio tests with the instruments.
As the space is reverberant, any small creaks and scratches really show up. A click that normally lasts a split second reverberates for several seconds. So we had to be very careful moving around the space, while music was playing. And we had to be silent for several seconds before we started recording any sounds.
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