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In Reply to: "A single violin is as loud as the whole orchestra" posted by Brian H P on March 24, 2021 at 12:18:18:
The old Mercury Living Presence recordings (and other recordings from the "golden age of stereo") were made that way. And, except for one recording, Mercury used only three microphones for their whole classical stereo catalog. The projection of the soloist all depends on where you're sitting (at the concert) or, on a recording, where the microphones are placed. (Of course, you do have to get the microphones exactly in the right place!) In any case, it shouldn't require any special mixing on the engineer's part other than to set the placement and levels of the microphones to begin with - although, in practice (and unfortunately IMHO), companies have moved away from simple microphone techniques (and towards active mixing) over time. And even the Mercury folks had to mix their center channel pick-up into the final L and R channels too (except on the MCH SACD reissues, where you can adjust the level of that discrete center channel into the total sound picture yourself if you don't like the way they did it! Power to the People! Want the soloist to stand out even more? Raise the level of that center channel! - Done!).
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Follow Ups
- And you can make a solo instrument stand out, even with a very simple microphone arrangement - Chris from Lafayette 12:54:42 03/24/21 (4)
- RE: And you can make a solo instrument stand out, even with a very simple microphone arrangement - Todd Krieger 06:36:24 03/25/21 (3)
- That would be an interesting project - to try to find the exact Telarc recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:36:40 03/25/21 (2)
- Good Questions!!!! ......... - Todd Krieger 22:35:04 03/25/21 (1)
- Todd - thanks for the very detailed response - Chris from Lafayette 02:16:55 03/26/21 (0)
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