August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 45m
English
The concert hall or recording studio should be thought of as one of the instruments in classical music recording, as the most common techniques capture the sound of the instruments and the room as one element. It is important to assess the sound in the hall before listening to the resulting sound coming over the microphones, so that the engineer has a mental snapshot of the acoustic “signature” of the orchestra in the hall. The goal of the recording is to replicate the sound of the musicians in the room, with the intention of improving any shortcomings of the space through the careful placement and balancing of microphones. In extreme cases, the hall itself might be physically ...
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