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RE: Multi-Mics are the standard, in spite of what people here often think! nt

The best classical recordings are made with one microphone per channel or in a few cases a few extra microphones to adjust ambiance. The best results come by getting it right at first, no fixing in the mix. Right now, this means the Channel Classics recordings. One can tell on a track by track basis when there fudging was needed for "artistic" considerations (boost the level of egotistic singer) vs. other tracks on the same recording with direct analog to DSD with no post production. But most tracks have natural sound.

Even better, when it works is pure Blumlein, as can be found on some Water Lily Acoustic recordings, such as the Temirkanof Mahler 5. Unfortunately, most people don't have a system that is set up to handle this recording, so they won't hear it's potential. Or they have a suitable system, but their wife won't allow them to turn the volume up to realistic concert levels. The problem with the purist approach is that when it works the results are not only very good, they are superb. But there is a huge element of luck and skill involved in getting it right and more often than not the results are poor. It costs too much to pay 100 musicians to hang around for days while the engineer tweaks the stage, room acoustics and microphone setup. From a commercial perspective, purist recordings are not practical except for boutique labels and some recording venues make them impossible. (The Water Lilly Acoustics Mahler 5 was a live performance, and the hall acoustics probably needed the people in the room to get natural sound.)



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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