There are also good, college-level textbooks about how to make
recordings. One is John Eargle's Recording Engineering Handbook,
which has been through three or four editions by now. These books
cover more than classical music, more recent editions including
how to do surround sound for video, and give much more detail
about the theory, practice, laws of physics, and tradeoffs of
each approach than is possible on an Internet mailing list.
If you want to learn about the pros and cons of various microphone
types, try to run down a copy of Gerhart Bore's little (79 p.)
book entitled Microphones for Professional and Semi-professional
applications, published by Neumann (but **NOT** advertising copy
for them; this is cited in every book and article about
microphones, I'm pretty sure including the Eargle book!) in 1989.
He clearly explains the physics behind pressure and
pressure-gradient transducers, large and small diaphragm mikes,
and so on, again in a way that's beyond the scope of a mailing list.
Howard Sanner
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