Fascinating MS
Gary Eickmeier wrote:
"Move the microphones" - I set up my microphones to record single point
stereo with the perspective that I want to hear on the recording. You don't
move them to a bad perspective for some sonic problem.
There are lots of places with a good perspective. One of them might be
six inches away from where you are now. Stick your finger in your ear,
listen with one ear, move your head around and see.
When you come across a standing wave problem at high frequencies or a
flutter echo, you'll hear it very easily with one ear and you might not
notice it so easily with both.
I would think you
solve the problem. Of course if it were a recording session, you could move
the entire band to someplace that didn't have the problem, but Lux is
telling me to turn the mikes 60 degrees to the right and have the
perspective of a band in the left channel and nothing in the right. I don't
know if he is punking me or what.
No, that's not what he's telling you, I don't believe.
Monitoring - yes, sure, you never shoot or record without monitoring the
sound, but I am recording in MS RAW, which is not real helpful for telling
how the stereo is going.
So, basically you have no real monitoring in the field, which is really
much of your problem. It's possible to work this way but it's a whole lot
more difficult and you have to leave a lot to chance.
And there are some real surprising - even humorous - anomolies happening
with a pair of Fig 8 mikes after decoding to stereo that I will show and
tell about when I get time to post my results of testing outdoors.
My suspicion is that what you're encountering are normal room problems.
It goes with the territory.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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