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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: I was astonished . . . posted by markrohr on September 8, 2006 at 09:05:25:
"this is one of the several reasons multimike classical recordings cannot sound real. The audience doesn't hear instruments from 12 inches away."Actually, it does sound "real," it just doesn't sound "live." I don't want to once again get into a discussion of "live" vs recording, but I'm not convinced that recorded sound can (or should) sound exactly like a "live" performance.
So, for me, it is not an issue of the number of mikes. It is an issue of audio quality. I have heard multi-miked recordings that I enjoy. I have also heard many, many "live" recordings that were single-miked, that had dreadful audio.
I'm not defending any particular recording, and an not even defending the close miking of individual instruments. I'm just saying that good audio quality is not the product of only microphone placement, but a lot of other factors as well.
That said, I dislike most of Perlman's recordings because the violin is too "out front" and out of balance with the orchestra. That is a result of all sorts of choices, only one of which is the close miking of the violin. In other words, I agree with you regarding these recordings, but disagree that it is to be blamed solely on multi-miking.
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Follow Ups
- Re: I was astonished . . . - Amphissa 14:16:51 09/08/06 (3)
- Sorry. - markrohr 15:08:39 09/08/06 (2)
- Re: Sorry. - Amphissa 19:23:43 09/08/06 (1)
- Exactly! But . . . - markrohr 04:50:10 09/09/06 (0)
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