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For the purity of the instruments and vocals, and natural soundstage and room ambience, the OneMic Series of recordings on YouTube are excellent. Most of them are original songs by independent artists (not mainstream popular music) and have been recorded relatively recently (within the last 6 years or so).
All of the recordings are captured with a Single Stereo Microphone in a Blumlein configuration, which presents a natural soundfield with absolutely no phase issues. The musicians "mix" their performance in terms of their individual levels and placement in the soundstage by their individual distance to the mic and their individual placement around the stereo microphone.
The Blumlein stereo microphone has two ribbon elements that are 90 degrees oppossed to each other and each ribbon picks up sound in a "figure-of-eight" polar pattern or "8", so there is a "front" and "back" stereo pickup pattern, and the musicians can be placed in the front or back side of the mic to effectively place them all in the FRONT Left to Right of the soundstage. To the sides of each ribbon element (at 90 degrees to each side) there is a complete cancellation null.
The only difference to the diagram above is that instead of using two individual mono figure-of-8 polar pattern microphones as shown above, BOTH of the separate 90° oppossed ribbon elements are contained within a single housing in the AEA R88 stereo ribbon microphone that is used for the first two recordings below.
No multitrack "mixing" can be done with these recordings. The levels and soundstage placement of each musician and vocalist are "burned into" the recording once it is captured and cannot be changed after the fact. So these minimalist 2-track recordings are then only Mastered with minimal EQ and dynamic processing where necessary.
You might want to wear headphones or IEMs/earbuds for your first listen. Here are just a few examples...
OneMic Series - The David Grisman Quintet - Bells Of Camoglia
OneMic Series - Ismay - The Lonely Stallion
OneMic Series - Elizabeth Mar - The Current
Check out all of the OneMic series for other gems you may like.
For the purity of the instruments and vocals, and natural soundstage and room ambience, the OneMic Series of recordings on YouTube are excellent. Most of them are original songs by independent artists (not mainstream popular music) and have been recorded relatively recently (within the last 6 years or so).
All of the recordings are captured with a Single Stereo Microphone in a Blumlein configuration, which presents a natural soundfield with absolutely no phase issues. The musicians "mix" their performance in terms of their individual levels and placement in the soundstage by their individual distance to the mic and their individual placement around the stereo microphone.
The Blumlein stereo microphone has two ribbon elements that are 90 degrees oppossed to each other and each ribbon picks up sound in a "figure-of-eight" polar pattern or "8", so there is a "front" and "back" stereo pickup pattern, and the musicians can be placed in the front or back side of the mic to effectively place them all in the FRONT Left to Right of the soundstage. To the sides of each ribbon element (at 90 degrees to each side) there is a complete cancellation null.
The only difference to the diagram above is that instead of using two individual mono figure-of-8 polar pattern microphones as shown above, BOTH of the separate 90° oppossed ribbon elements are contained within a single housing in the AEA R88 stereo ribbon microphone that is used for the first two recordings below.
No multitrack "mixing" can be done with these recordings. The levels and soundstage placement of each musician and vocalist are "burned into" the recording once it is captured and cannot be changed after the fact. So these minimalist 2-track recordings are then only Mastered with minimal EQ and dynamic processing where necessary.
You might want to wear headphones or IEMs/earbuds for your first listen. Here are just a few examples...
OneMic Series - The David Grisman Quintet - Bells Of Camoglia
OneMic Series - Ismay - The Lonely Stallion
OneMic Series - Elizabeth Mar - The Current
Check out all of the OneMic series for other gems you may like.
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