J-Corder Review in Wired Magazine. Very Complete Review of Tape.

[earlinarizona]

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/review-j-corder/

 

[Schallfeldwebel]

In the article this thread is referring I found this: The other part is the way Horwich recorded the musicians: just two spaced B&K Omni mics.

That is a bit unexpecting. I have done this also once as an experiment. I could ask these boys you can hear beneath to record some analog projects.

Here is a soundfile made with only two B&K's omni microphones;

http://www.freewebs.com/eriksikkema/On vacation R.Johansson.mp3

 

[amirm]

I am listening on my headphones on the laptop. It sounds good to me. The Piano is a bit to the left and the drums to the right. Is that the wrong answer?

 

[Schallfeldwebel]

I am listening on my headphones on the laptop. It sounds good to me. The Piano is a bit to the left and the drums to the right. Is that the wrong answer?

That means you have connected the channels in the right order. I should have gone a bit more backwards with the microphones, but the audience was very close. Actually the microphones were positioned without sound check. On speakers it will sound a bit less wide. I like it though, always surprising what you can do with two microphones.

 

[amirm]

You are right. If you had not told me that was the setup, I would not have guessed it.

 

[dminches]

That means you have connected the channels in the right order. I should have gone a bit more backwards with the microphones, but the audience was very close. Actually the microphones were positioned without sound check. On speakers it will sound a bit less wide. I like it though, always surprising what you can do with two microphones.

There are some incredible sounding Grateful Dead recordings made with 2 mics. You may not like the music, but the fidelity on some of them is outstanding. In fact, some have been misidentified as sound boards.

 

[Schallfeldwebel]

There are some incredible sounding Grateful Dead recordings made with 2 mics. You may not like the music, but the fidelity on some of them is outstanding. In fact, some have been misidentified as sound boards.

I am not a specialist in that music genre, but we listened to it and discussed it during some musicology lectures I was attending. Interesting group I must say.

You never can fully trust information about how recordings were made. The studio and recording world is (was) rather secretive, and therefore want to mention that not everything what is said or what you read about how recordings are made is true. There are made mistakes in the colophons of CD booklets and LP's. In one of my recordings at BIS it is suggested that the CD was recorded with two B&K 4006 microphones, but the truth is two Schoeps MK2S, it was just taken over wrongly from another project.

 

[rockitman]

There are some incredible sounding Grateful Dead recordings made with 2 mics. You may not like the music, but the fidelity on some of them is outstanding. In fact, some have been misidentified as sound boards.

Lots of great live music has been recorded with two mics in ORTF cardioid configuration...also in spaced omni capsule configurations. I recorded many GD concerts and agree with your assessment.