[leifislive]

Hi,

I have not thought about that very much in detail so far and I am therefore new to this issue. I have made the experience, that when time aligning the spot mics to the main mic, the overallmix gains a significant amolunt of transparency, much more then I estimated.

I recorded Shostakovitch 5 with a friend's orchestra and wanted to evaluate different setups: an ORTF-like with wide cardioids with outriggers vs. a wide spread Tree (roughly a little behind the heads of the first stands) with two outriggers; spots for the concert master (solo), bass and between first trumpet/trombone (channel limits). Concert room was a kind of a town hall with little reverb. I finally found to take all mics is the best solution, when aligning them to the main ORTF-like. Unfortunately I had to estimate the values and correct by ear, since I didn't measure the distances when recording because I didn't assume to need it.

What do you do?

Thanks for any helpful reply and comment.

Best

Leif