In Reply to: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs posted by The Sound Guy on November 29, 2005 at 05:17:44:
Because recording times for the musicians and the hall and the engineers can get exhorbitant, most companies employ multimiking. Even during the 'Golden Age' of stereo, most studios used multimiking, including RCA and Decca with their famous 'tree'. Mercury was one of the few to employ only three mikes. The three earliest RCA. LSC 1806, 1817, and 1893 used minimal miking (Zarathustra, Gaite Parisienne, and Daphnis and Chloe), but after these, RCA used up to seven mikes.
No compression is definitely not the same as minimal miking.
The only current minimal miking I know is done by Kavi Alexander, who uses a single stereo mike.Stu
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- Re: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs - unclestu52 11:34:42 11/29/05 (20)
- Opus 3 uses one stereo microphone as does Sheffield Lab, Naim and a few other small companies. Also - Teresa 19:08:52 11/30/05 (3)
- Re: Opus 3 uses one stereo microphone as does Sheffield Lab, Naim and a few other small companies. Also - The Sound Guy 20:47:48 11/30/05 (2)
- Reference Recordings is indeed back. In depends on the recording as Prof. Johnson varies his mic techniques - Teresa 21:17:52 11/30/05 (1)
- What a shame... I'd snapped up everyone of the RRs on either hi-rez format. nt - oscar 05:40:19 12/01/05 (0)
- Re: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs - The Sound Guy 23:44:50 11/29/05 (15)
- Re: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs - unclestu52 12:17:40 11/30/05 (14)
- Re: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs - tenor39 19:12:10 12/17/05 (0)
- FYI: All RCA Living Stereo Classical recordings use either 2 or 3 microphones. - Teresa 19:02:25 11/30/05 (8)
- Re: FYI: All RCA Living Stereo Classical recordings use either 2 or 3 microphones. - Kal Rubinson 09:20:34 12/01/05 (7)
- Just did a little bit of Google searching. . . - Chris from Lafayette 22:34:25 12/07/05 (0)
- Wow - is it possible. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:42:54 12/02/05 (2)
- Re: Wow - is it possible. . . - unclestu52 11:35:40 12/03/05 (1)
- Re: Wow - is it possible. . . - Chris from Lafayette 18:10:41 12/03/05 (0)
- Kal wouldn't that be only for Concerto recordings? (nt) - Teresa 20:33:24 12/01/05 (2)
- Re: Kal wouldn't that be only for Concerto recordings? (nt) - Kal Rubinson 08:49:25 12/02/05 (1)
- Kal thanks for the info, RCA Living Stereo's are amoung my favorite recordings in any format. - Teresa 18:43:25 12/02/05 (0)
- Re: Miking techniques on classical DVD-A discs - Kal Rubinson 14:25:35 11/30/05 (3)
- Golden age of stereo not really golden? - The Sound Guy 16:28:24 11/30/05 (2)
- Re: Golden age of stereo not really golden? - unclestu52 12:04:02 12/02/05 (1)
- Re: Golden age of stereo not really golden? - The Sound Guy 21:43:12 12/03/05 (0)