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Best way to mike for room ambience in surround
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Arny Krueger
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I want to record the ambience of a room in surround (for a
5.1 system)
and was wondering about the best mike setup for that. Are
there any
standard techniques?
Ambience is a musical sound like many others.
For obvious reasons, close-micing is probably not going to
be overly sucessful with ambience. ;-)
OTOH, PZMs can work for ambience. Been there, done that and
I should probably do it more.
I've also used spaced omnis, spaced cardioids, X-Y cardioids
and X-Y hypercardiods.
The spaced mic approaches get you the expected phasy sort of
sound, while the coincident techniques provide more focus.
Now, if the idea of well-focussed ambience of gives you a
headache... ;-)
Scott seems to me to be to be making a good point - and that
is when it comes to micing ambience, a lot of people myself
included are sort of shooting in the dark. I'm currently
making recordings with two pairs of spaced omnis and a pair
of X-Y broad cardioids (6 mics) on 6 tracks...
Different music seems to *want* different kinds of
spatiality. My preference is to leave as many decisions as
close to the finished product as possible. In my economy
performances are one-time occurance and highly valuable,
while mixing time is negotiable.
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