Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
for real performances, single point micing, even though not a
must, should be adequate or superior for all events that are recorded
in a venue in which a live audience is supposed to have a good
listening experience of an equivalent performance.
Ronald, the next time you go to an opera to sit in your one spot, please
keep your eyes closed during the whole opera, from beginning to the final
curtain.
When you are in the audience, you are using all of your senses.
An audio recording will never deliver the complete experience.
In real life, the truth is that you don't _hear_ all of the details
while sitting in
the audience. You fill up the gaps that you don't hear with cues from
other senses,
mostly from sight.
You imagine that you can hear the separate violas in a symphony orchestra
better when you see their bows moving. If you'd hear just an audio
recording,
you wouldn't. The sight sense is fooling you.
This is why recordings of large orchestras, opera, sports etc. use a lot
of microphones which the mixing engineer uses to create an illusion
of the performance.
It isn't fair from me to write more about Nimbus policy, as they aren't
themselves in this discussion. However, a fact is that the Nimbus people
told me that the reason for not making opera recordings is one point miking.
They thought the end result wouldn't be good enough for their target
quality.
I believe they had tried it.
They built an own concert hall to be able to record symphony orchestras
with one point miking, now isn't that something?
Eero
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