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Originally Posted by ebs.audio  Good luck - sounds like a fun project!
Great idea to have everyone in the same room with no headphones. If you're not limited by track count, I'd add an ORTF pair and flanks out in front of the group and use those as a starting point for your mix.
We recently did a concert of Stan Kenton's music, and I approached the recording in this way. I ended up only using the four mics across the front and spot mics on the soloists, and I was pretty happy with the results. |
I can't really do an ORTIF pair. For two reasons. First, we're setting up in a different configuration than we would if we were performing live, and secondly because the panning wouldn't be as flexible.
The horns will be 3 parts of a square. Saxophones will face the trumpets and the trombones at a right angle. The rhythm section will be opposite the trombones.
If I were recording in a bigger room, I could set-up more like a concert performance.