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In Reply to: Recording orchestras posted by KlausR. on October 26, 2010 at 07:25:08:
I think you're making it out to be more difficult than it is. On a good pair of speakers in a reasonable acoustic, you'll hear pretty much what the microphone records. If the instrument is recorded from 2" away, it will sound like it's coming from the plane of the speakers. If it's recorded from 30' away, it will sound like it's coming from, if not 30', then 20', as it would in real life, since the brain tends to misjudged distance.
For a clear example of this effect, listen to the cow bell recordings on the Stereophile test disks. You can hear the distance of the cow bell as it moves from the front to the back of the stage. Different microphone techniques are used and while they produce different perspectives, it's a matter of precise location.
In practice, naturally mike recordings do a fairly good job of putting the orchestra on a simply miked recording where it should be -- at a distance from the listener, And they maintain, approximately, overall balance and timbre. The speakers aren't reproducing the sound from below, but from the front, and this reduces though it doesn't entirely eliminate the effect of the unusual microphone perspective.
In my experience, multi-miked recordings are less successful at producing an illusion of reality. They rarely sound natural, either in tonal balance or spatiality.
Sure, nothing can create a completely convincing illusion, particularly in the case of two channel stereo since two channels can't produce the sense of envelopment one hears in a concert hall. But the best recordings, played on the best speakers, have an uncanny ability to transport the listener into a different space.
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