Thanks!
What you also need to look at is the acoustics of the room you're recording in. I think the dryer the room, the better the result. It's easier to add reverb then to get nasty reflections out of the recording. I noticed this last month when I tried to record the tubaplayer for my brassrecordings in his house instead of recording him in my own homestudio. Now we have to do his parts all over again...
I'm thinking of buying this SE reflection filter, I heard it get's good results:
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