Phil Leigh;592653 Wrote: > absolutely! - anything other than a spaced or crossed pair "ambient" > recording is going to sound "unrealistic" and will bear very little > relationship to what you would hear if you were actually standing in > the room listening to the music. That about marks the extent of my amateur recording. A crossed pair of Shure dynamic microphones, a microphone preamp and a Sony reel to reel. I kept the cables as short as possible which annoyed the players a touch as it meant me sitting in the front row of the audience! Being full dynamic range mics meant setting levels so close to the players was a nightmare, so I would always try and be there for the final rehearsal. Occasionally it sounded half decent - but usually either the quiet bits were drowned in hiss or the loud bits distorted (this was just before the days of DAT).
At home I would copy the recording onto cassettes for band members who wanted them. After about 5 or 6 concerts I found the recording a bit of a chore and it got in the way of my enjoyment of the music, so I handed the job over to somebody with more equipment, enthusiasm and a better idea of what he was doing! Mind you he would place five or six microphones around the orchestra and trail cables everywhere to a little mixer, so his "stereo illusion" was probably not as good as the one created by my setup. I agree totally that the stereo illusion in most professional recordings rarely matches anything close to reality (liked the Youtube clip Phil), but I was not so much thinking about the stereo illusion but rather whether the instrument sounds "right". There is little stereo information in a recording of a solo piano anyway - except for the acoustics of the room it is in. And with a drum kit it is more "does the kick drum sound like a kick drum or a hi-hat like a hi-hat" etc. In fact, I cannot think of an instrument that, on its own, occupies enough space to need stereo - unless ludicrously close miked. -- TheLastMan Matt *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology Diskstation 107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157) running Squeezebox Server 7.5.0 on Synology Package Manager *Network:* Netgear DG834GT ADSL modem/router, 2 x Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as access points *Livingroom:* Receiver into Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver into Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers *Study:* Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/Headline. LPs ripped usingBehringer UCA202 USB into Windows XP PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
