Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[The Dong]

Tony Scharf wrote:
> If you have a standard 8 input audio interface you are using, then why 
> not use 6 stereo mics, and record each one at a slightly different 
> level?   one higher, one lower, and one right in the middle, for each 
> mic placement (so, yeah, your going to want to have a LOT of mics and a 
> LOT of inputs..so its expensive).   Then, if you have any sections that 
> clip, you have a (hopefully a sample and phase accurate) set of other 
> tracks to crossfade over to during the louder sections. conversely, if 
> you have sections that were very quiet and not capctured well on the low 
> level recordings you can swap over to the higher level ones without 
> needing to normalize or do other manipulations.

Good one. If one has a few sets of mics.
I thought it would take more than a binaural recording for an orchestra.
Depends..

It might even be fine to simply pick one set, normalise + whatever other 
fiddling you must do and that's that.