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Jesse,
Yes, I’m trying to convey the use of two different instances of the phone audio. One for the ambience of being live in the woods listening to the music so it doesn’t come across bone dry. (Who have I become?) If that stereo phone track needs a little EQ to help it talk with the music better, so be it. Anything that helps the illusion is fine.
The second use of the phone tracks would be as the driving source of the highly reflective/small room plate sound that I’m suggesting be the “unnatural” effect-y ambience sound. Perhaps wider to exaggerate the space. Tonal seasoning to taste but I’m guessing a low passed version here will do two things. One, let the low end of the close miced instruments retain their low end very distinct and intact, and two, allow you to subtly and magically change the listeners perception of the environment when and if the music hits its stride, becomes greater than the sum of its parts, and transports the listener.