September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
4h 53m
English
When a violinist and cellist join a pianist to record a piano trio, many engineers use a single A-B array of omnidirectional microphones in front of the performers to create a stereo playback image. However, in the typical concert seating arrangement, the mics will be closer to the violin and cello than the piano, and since this discrepancy can make the accompaniment sound slightly farther away, recordists often achieve a more balanced depth perspective by positioning the mics closer to, yet high enough above, the string players to lessen the distance between the strings and the piano. But if engineers find that this approach still does not produce enough accompaniment in the mix, a judicious use of spot ...
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