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Originally Posted by Remoteness  I bet 200 or 300 feet way would sound very nice. |
It would, but there are distractions in the environment that are probably too loud to overcome. A fountain in the main square (which will be full of people milling about) and an enormous HVAC type unit just outside the bell tower (as in - 2 stories high enormous!)
I brought up the point made earlier about ambient noise being part of the experience and the client quickly shot that down, saying they didn't want any extraneous noise other than the occasional hammer striking a bell (which is why they want us to close mic the bells)
So what we're basically stuck with is recording in the bell tower, close miking the bells.
Our current plan is to use their permanent install mic (some kind of dynamic cardioid hanging down) and another dynamic below for the recording they're used to getting (this is also a "safety net" of sorts, so that if all else fails we can at least deliver their normal recording). Then to improve the quality of the recording in general we want to add stereo pairs top and bottom (good condensers in card or wide card mode) and perhaps omnis alongside.
We'd run everything to separate tracks of course (8 total at this point) and what it basically amounts to is sticking a bunch of good condenser mics all around the carillon and dealing with it in post.
Thoughts?