Recording Classical Music

Preface

This book serves as an introductory text to fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces. It focuses on stereo microphone techniques in classical genres to help performers unaccustomed to recording environments understand the processes involved in crafting records. Musicians spend thousands of hours preparing for the concert platform but relatively little time (if any) learning how to turn those performances into recorded sound. A concert hall recital, replicated in front of microphones, rarely produces a satisfactory outcome on a distribution medium such as the compact disk or mp3, for the methods engineers and producers use to shape what listeners hear through loudspeakers have an enormous ...