Probably not -
The Coles 4038 is a bidirectional microphone - it's side lobes are
aiming into the room, meaning the points that it picks up the least are
"the room." A pair of Coles in the middle of the room in a Blumlein
configuration would have been a fantastic way to pick up the entire
group and likely the way (or similar at least) that they actually did it
for the real recording session. After all, that many tracks of tape
would have been a commodity at that time. There'd be no reason to eat
it all up with a mic on each instrument and a pair of room mics.
Sorry for the quick hijack...
:-)
David A. Jewell wrote:
folks, let's not forget the fact that "Give My Regards to Broad Street" is not intended as a documentary - it is in fact a fictionalized story that was filmed as entertainment cinema. Any accuracy in regards to the actual recording sessions,[of the Beatles] and or typical studio behavior is probably coincidental.
As an aside, Jeremy Cucco pointed out the Coles mics agains the back gobos - any possibility they were being used as "room mics" for the strings?
Paxmaha
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