Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[Gert van Santen]

Tony Scharf schreef:
> the only solution is, unfortunately, very high sampling rate, very 
> careful mic placement, and very high bit depth. 
> 
> if you dont have that, here is one solution..
> 
> 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.
> 
> It seems to me the key to recording producing orchestral recordings 
> would be to do as LITTLE as possilbe to the recorded signal and 
> definitely not make it at  all noticeable. 

Thanks, Tony. Good idea.

Perhaps I should have explained that the 
recodings are not of complete 
orchestra's, but mostly 2-4 musicians, 
eg piano and vocals, or a couple of 
string instruments.

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