[78-L] microphone technology

[David Lennick]

Speaking of mike placement and acoustics..the first time I attended a concert 
in the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton in 1982, I was in the upper balcony. The 
Orchestra sounded EXACTLY like an old Stokowski recording.

dl

On 12/10/2010 10:41 AM, Philip Carli wrote:
> We worked on that recording at Syracuse some years ago.  One possibility we discussed for the curiously muted recorded quality of that performance may have been a fairly simple mistake: the mike wasn't necessarily inferior, but they didn't position it high enough to cover the whole orchestra well.  It may have been placed no higher than Sokolov's head when on the podium, or it may have been lower, like a simple floor placement.  If the orchestra was seated flat, rather than in a tiered format, low mike placement might account for the brasses and wind sounding somewhat distant and unauthoritative, as well as the unusual frequency range and overall balance.