Recording & Rendering

--- Recording & Rendering 101 --- Acoustics vs. Hearing --- Making a SACD --- Subjective evaluation --- 
--- Room optimized stereo --- Sound reproduction --- Recording what we hear ---
--- Experimental results --- Theory --- SRA --- Virtual acoustics ---

Making a SACD with the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Here is a video with C. Jared Sacks, founder of CHANNEL CLASSICS RECORDS, showing his recording technique and talking about his objectives when recording. Note the use of a central XY microphone pair in addition to many AB microphones. In particular, he uses an MS pair, which gives him the freedom to adjust the levels of mid and side microphone outputs after the recording session at the mixing stage in order to change the overall stereophonic perspective*.

* Wesley Dooley, Ronald Streicher, M-S Stereo: A Powerful Technique for Working in Stereo, JAES, Vol. 30, No. 10, 1982 October
* Ron Streicher, Wes Dooley, Basic Stereo Microphone Perspectives - A Review, JAES, Vol. 33, No. 7/8, 1985 July/August

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