Chapter 4
Solo instruments
This chapter aims to cover those instruments for which there is a large body of unaccompanied classical repertoire. This includes both polyphonic instruments that provide their own harmonies (such as the guitar, harp, harpsichord, and other early keyboard instruments) and instruments that primarily produce a single line (such as violin, cello, and woodwinds). For instruments that are almost always employed as part of an ensemble, it is more practical and useful to consider how to record the whole ensemble. Therefore, discussion of brass instruments has been left to Chapters 7 and 13.
Throughout this chapter, the discussion is concerned with placement of spot microphones on a single player. It is assumed that in addition ...
