TheLastMan;593202 Wrote: > In fact, I cannot think of an instrument that, on its own, occupies > enough space to need stereo - unless ludicrously close miked. A drum kit most definitely requires stereo to sound correct. Facing a right-handed player, you typically hear the hi-hat towards the right of the image, snare centre (or slightly right), bass centre (or slightly left), toms spread across (lowest note on the left, highest on the right), etc.
A closed-miked multi-tracked kit ends up with each item "disembodied" at a location in the image, whereas Louis Bellson's kit recorded with a simple crossed pair had them located precisely AND coherently. I think that by close-miking each drum/cymbal, the space around it is lost so that when they are panned into position they don't have any contextual ambience, which in turn means the kit as a whole doesn't "knit together". -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
