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Originally Posted by hbphotoav  My preference is for the Brauner (wee bit better "sparkle" on the zimbelstern, but a bit "narrower" organ sound) and the 8040 pair (I thought the image of the organ was more like the organ sounded, from the front row... the left/right directionality is actually quite apparent). I thought the DPA did the best job of capturing the room from the "listener's" perspective from the "usual" seating distance,...
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I had similar thoughts - I prefered 2 (Sennheisers) in the soft part, because it seemed more "open" - more feeling of space, more like I am used to hear organ - example 1 (Brauner) was really nice and had most beautiful midrange, but of course - one cannot not know how that particular organ in that particular church sounds if one was not there... but as you say, Brauner seemed more "narrow" or better - direct - in that quiet passage (maybe it has more to do with XY vs ORTF), but in the loud examples I prefered the Brauner (now that I know what was no.8) because it seemed that it handled the chaotic complexity of sound better... The combination of the Brauner and DPAs would probably get you where you want... I didn't like any of the spaced pairs on their own - too much hole in the middle, too artificial sound, but I can imagine them complementing the main pair very well. If you could repeat the recording, I would position that additional pair even more in the distance to get less direct sound and more reverberation and I would then mix them much lower than the main pair - just to get that tiny % more of depth.