Post by hiredfox August 28, 2012 (1 of 21)
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The back cover reveals this to be a DSD recording from Sound Mirror. Otherwsie the music is new to me, the label is new and this appears to be a first recording.
I wonder Tom if you were involved and can enlighten us further, any pics of the recording session etc?
Thanks
John
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Post by BABoston August 28, 2012 (2 of 21)
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Tom missed that leg of the road trip. Dirk Sobotka and I did this recording. I'll try to find some session photos. What can I tell you about this one?
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Soundmirror did a terrific job on the Grechaninov recording for Chandos, one of the nicest choral albums I've heard.
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Post by hiredfox August 29, 2012 (4 of 21)
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BABoston said:
Tom missed that leg of the road trip. Dirk Sobotka and I did this recording. I'll try to find some session photos. What can I tell you about this one?
Hi Blanton
Guess anything that helps enlighten us on your philosophy for mic set-up, spatial positioning of performers in the space to reproduce the most realistic acoustic, editing and so on. The pics help our understanding of the sound-staging if taken during the recording session itself.
Thanks
John
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Post by BABoston August 29, 2012 (5 of 21)
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Our mic setup for a project like this would typically be five omnidirectional mics for the multichannel pickup, with a separate two-or-three omni mic setup for the two-channel pickup---plus solo/spot mics as needed. The multichannel setup would roughly mimic the ITU multichannel speaker arrangement, with adjustments of spacing based on our listening during sound checks. (Our control room monitor setup would use five loudspeakers in a similar arrangement.)
We use the usual DPA, Schoeps and Neumann microphones, Millennia or Grace preamps, and our converters are either Genex, Mytek or Meitner---depending on what's available and what the project needs. We record DSD to Pyramix and Genex 9048. Editing is done on Pyramix at our studios in Boston.
I'll try to round up some session photos today!
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Interesting. I had always assumed that the multichannel and stereo mixes used common sources.
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Post by Lochiel August 29, 2012 (7 of 21)
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Yes, why would you not use the front L & R mics in the MC setup for the stereo mix?
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Post by DSD August 29, 2012 (8 of 21)
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Lochiel said:
Yes, why would you not use the front L & R mics in the MC setup for the stereo mix?
Michael Bishop of 5/4 productions says that the placement of the right and left microphones for stereo and multichannel are different because in stereo one has to create a strong "phantom" center channel between the right and left channels whereas multichannel has a real center channel speaker.
He uses 4 microphones for stereo and 7 microphones for multichannel, 11 microphones total.
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Post by hiredfox August 30, 2012 (9 of 21)
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Euell Neverno said:
Interesting. I had always assumed that the multichannel and stereo mixes used common sources.
Some do it that way much as we stereo fanatics have bemoaned the practice in threads over the years. This can be only good news for non-mch aficionado's.
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Post by hiredfox August 30, 2012 (10 of 21)
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DSD said:
Michael Bishop of 5/4 productions says that the placement of the right and left microphones for stereo and multichannel are different because in stereo one has to create a strong "phantom" center channel between the right and left channels whereas multichannel has a real center channel speaker.
He uses 4 microphones for stereo and 7 microphones for multichannel, 11 microphones total.
Excellent reminder, Teresa.
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