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RE: Another take

If you are miking too closely you get all kinds of problems. The answer is that if you are looking for the best results you shouldn't do this. However, this may not be possible if the venue is not suitable. I do not buy your comment about a microphone losing the tail of a guitar. This is just not physically possible. There is some psychoacoustic effect taking place. What you say may apply when laying a track to be used in a mix, but then you can't produce the best possible results by post-production mixdown. The best you can get is to minimize the damage.

As to singers who can't sing. They shouldn't be recorded. Their career should be put out of its misery by one means or another. I can sympathize with the problems recordists face when dealing with singers. I've been there. Fortunately, I was married to a pianist and not a singer. Singers come with a double ego, one for their art and the other for their "instrument".

If the goal is making money then by all means use all of the standard techniques. The result will be good enough to make money, but it won't result in natural recordings that can pass muster with the real thing. As a result many audiophiles complain that recorded music can not effectively reproduce the sound of live music.

By the way, perfect reproduction would not end the excitement of attending live concerts, where one never knows what might happen.

Tony Lauck

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


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