[78-L] earliest use of multiple mic mixing

[David Lennick]

I'm sure it was general from a pretty early stage. I was playing Stokowski's 
1936 "Firebird Suite" and a veteran BBC engineer at the station thought he 
could hear 5 mikes. And it was widely known that Stokowski wanted to have his 
hands on the control panel while he was recording, and rumored that Victor gave 
him a dummy mixer.

dl

Thatcher Graham wrote:
> I can't name a recording but I know that in 1881 Clement Ader installed 
> pairs of carbon mics on a Paris opera stage for telephone subscribers to 
> listen in. It was esperimental, btu I'd expect a 2-mic recording to 
> either immediately preceed ro follow that date.
> 
> -Thatcher
> 
> 
> 
> zimrec at juno.com wrote:
>> I was asked by a friend if I knew the earliest instance, in a studio setting, of using multiple microphones mixed to a single monaural signal.  I have no idea, but thought someone on this list might.  I know of instances where two microphones were used in recording, but each outputting a signal to separate turntables.
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>> Art
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