Did anyone else have a problem bringing up the site Jaroslaw provided? I would like to see his microphone set up.
Regarding dt's reasons for using several mics, the ones regarding malfunctions or surround sound recording make perfect sense (though I'm sure that any engineer would have back up mics available, even if doing mininmal micing). I'm less convinced by the other reasons, though dt has done the recordings and I haven't so he's had experiences that I haven't. Still, I'm sceptical that - assuming the positioning of a main pair of mics is very good but not perfect - that adding in other pairs that are necessarily even less well placed will provide improved sound. But I would like to change the term "improved" to "natural". Perhaps neither term will mean the same thing to all of us, but natural is more meanignful to me and more important as a goal. I assume the engineers that did the POD disc that started this whole discussion believed that they were improving the sound by their recording techniques. To my ears, they ended up with an extremely unnatural sound. Ned -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
