[BC] The real thing....

[Dana Puopolo]

Not all concert recordings are done that way, Richard. I know of some who
swear by using a pair of spaced omni mikes. Others use a cardoid and a figure
8 pattern turned 90 degrees from each other and feed them into a M/S matrixer.
The Ambisonics Soundfield microphone is still highly prized for live concert
recordings.

Not everyone does the multitrack crap lazy way of recording. Some actually
unbderstand how microphones work at picking up sound...

-D

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Received: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:03:58 PM EDT
From: "Richard Fry" <rfry at adams.net>

Yet most commercial recordings are made via multi-track recorders from
closely-miked instrumental sections, and even of individual instruments in
some cases. This can transfer the acoustic balance of the commercial
recording away from that heard in Davies Hall or wherever to that thought to
be desirable by the producer of the commercial recording.  And this doesn't
even consider the dynamic/spectral processing that the producer applied to
the individual/overall sound track mix for release to the final media.