Tips for recording cheap handpans?
I bought temu handpans and still don't have money for anything nice. Sad times. I clearly need to work out my gain levels as this recording seems to have picked up some distortion from monitoring it on headphones to listening as a video.
How is everyone recording theirs? Are there any tips or tricks for smoothing out the harmonics and finger tapping noise? Or a way to make it sound deeper and more resonant without it becoming muddy?
I'm guessing mic distance is important, does placement matter? I had 2 mics off to the side just out of shot on this, played with an undermic for the little pan but it sounded odd so binned that off. I thought adding reverb would help but it sounded very separate to the sound of the pan and didn't blend well generally, it's a cheap desk reverb though so that might be the problem there!
Any suggestions would be appreciated :)