The additional mics will make it sound better AND more natural, if used skillfully. But, as I said before, you can turn them off in post, so you have it both ways. Why not have it both ways? There can be no good reason to not put them up, then remove them later if not needed.
Anyone who has not tried Decca Tree on lute should try it, in a good acoustic it is the most natural sounding of all, as engineers have demonstated over and over for half a century. Takes three mics. And don't forget the free microphone offer! If I have time I will set up a mix for people to download and play with over the summer, and you can try it both ways. d At 02:55 PM 4/2/2010, you wrote: > 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
