On 2 Apr 2012, at 19:02, Eero Aro <eero....@dlc.fi> wrote: > 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.
Actually, most of the time I'm doing just that, same with symphonic performances. I just don't give enough about seeing some fat lady acting badly, or some people in penguin outfits pretending to perform for the aristocracy a couple of hundred years ago. (And several conductors and soloists have such mannerisms that it's seriously distracting from their music, e.g. when Brendel was playing the piano I had to look away, because his grimaces were just intolerable regardless how genius his performance was). Unlike a musical, when I go to classical performances, I go there for the music and not for the show. Needless to say, I spend the extra bucks to have a seat where I like it. Of course, not everyone sits front center, and that's where your comments are perfectly valid, but that's also not where one would place a single point recording setup, unless one tries to do an undercover bootleg recording and can't get better seats... Any sort of reasonable performance space, and certainly every world class stage, has seats where missing parts of the performance aren't an issue, provided nobody screws up, and that's where the recording should be made. It also beats me, why the microphones dangle 10m above ground, when the audience is sitting in a chair. I want the microphone where my head would be, and not as if I were suspended magically in mid-air. (Well, I know why they do it in live setups, they want to sell more tickets... but they stick with the same stuff for non-live recordings.) Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
