simple recordings?

[alaios]

well what do i mean by that. For me that would mean 1-2 music organs, 1 singer and perhaps only 1 microphone. Something that allows you to pinpoint clearly the music sources on the stage.
Any tracks that you can suggest for that?

 

[Geert]

There are a few studios/engineers/labels who specialize in that, just google one mic recordings

 

[Multicore]

Do you mean 1 or 2 musical instruments when you say music organs? Assuming so I think that's a very good question that I cannot answer.

 

[Blumlein 88]

OneMic recordings, hear what the band heard in the studio!

One Mic Recordings Multi track recording has advantages and disadvantages. The good is that you can make an instrument louder or softer as you please. The bad thing when the recording is done in one room is phase. Maybe, the most time consuming aspect of our way of recording is getting the...

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Plenty of John Cuniberti vids on youtube labeled the Onemic Series.

Also any Chesky recordings before they started doing binaural. Those use a single stereo microphone.

Recordings from Mario Martinez are done with simple microphone pairs and he tries to get the result to accurately reflect real space.

Play Classics, classical music at its best

Listen to the world's most transparent recordings. Feel the sound as if you were present on the hall. Enjoy classical music at its best.

www.playclassics.com

Lots of very well recorded streaming examples are available to hear. One to a few instruments.

Streaming - Play Classics

Listen to the world's most transparent recordings. Feel the sound as if you were present on the hall. Enjoy classical music at its best.

www.playclassics.com

 

[alaios]

Do you 1 or 2 mean musical instruments when you say music organs? Assuming so I think that's a very good question that I cannot answer.

yes music instruments

 

[alaios]

OneMic recordings, hear what the band heard in the studio!

One Mic Recordings Multi track recording has advantages and disadvantages. The good is that you can make an instrument louder or softer as you please. The bad thing when the recording is done in one room is phase. Maybe, the most time consuming aspect of our way of recording is getting the...

www.audiosciencereview.com

Plenty of John Cuniberti vids on youtube labeled the Onemic Series.

Also any Chesky recordings before they started doing binaural. Those use a single stereo microphone.

Recordings from Mario Martinez are done with simple microphone pairs and he tries to get the result to accurately reflect real space.

Play Classics, classical music at its best

Listen to the world's most transparent recordings. Feel the sound as if you were present on the hall. Enjoy classical music at its best.

www.playclassics.com

Lots or very well recorded streaming examples are available to hear.

Streaming - Play Classics

Listen to the world's most transparent recordings. Feel the sound as if you were present on the hall. Enjoy classical music at its best.

www.playclassics.com

let me see if I can find those on tidayl

 

[617]

A lot of very old recordings are minimalistic in the way you describe. Before multi-track recording, everything had to be done live in one room. Totally different level of talent to create music like that.

 

[alaios]

How can I spot those? I want to listen to this kind of stuff in tidal

 

[MaxwellsEq]

It seems you are looking for something not multitracked, or recorded in a single take. You might find The Trinity Sessions by Cowboy Junkies interesting.

Lots of pre 1960 orchestral recordings were not multitracked.

 

[MarnixM]

yes music instruments

Sound Liason, specialists in one-mic recordings...

Carmen Gomes Inc. - Don't You Cry

Award-winning audiophile high-resolution studio masters; depth placement exceptional sound stage. A music download shop supporting audio files in 768kHz, 352kHz (DXD), 192kHz and 96kHz. Also FLAC and DSD format is supported. Five star rating reviews. Free hi-res download samples in all formats...

soundliaison.com

 

[MarnixM]

And that's what they use for their quality recordings....

 

[alaios]

wow very nice

 

[Jimbob54]

Sound Liason, specialists in one-mic recordings...

Carmen Gomes Inc. - Don't You Cry

Award-winning audiophile high-resolution studio masters; depth placement exceptional sound stage. A music download shop supporting audio files in 768kHz, 352kHz (DXD), 192kHz and 96kHz. Also FLAC and DSD format is supported. Five star rating reviews. Free hi-res download samples in all formats...

soundliaison.com

Sadly, tidal doesn't seem to allow search by label.

 

[Blumlein 88]

And that's what they use for their quality recordings....

Those are interesting microphones. The old Calrec Soundfield and current Tetra microphones use a different method to allow you to choose the pattern after the recording. Josephson does this in a another manner. I had a Lewitt for a while that let you do this. It can be very useful. You still have to figure out a good spot and get close to the right place to record. I would have thought such designs might become more common. They don't inherently cost a tremendous amount more. Josephson makes very high quality microphones as even their simpler mikes are quite expensive. Not that I've had one hands on.

I think the reason they haven't been more common is simple recordings are just a tiny market. Multi-pattern mikes are available and it doesn't take more than one extra connection to make the pattern selectable after the recording. But multi-miking is overwhelmingly the norm. So this isn't an advantage of much use in those conditions.

 

[mhardy6647]

Probably not your kind of music (not mine, either), but this is a superb recording. Not single instrument, but simple, spare arrangements. Also not really minimally mic'd, but minimally effed with.

Single instrument with vocal OK?

Patty Larkin (Live)
Not the best recording -- but a very honest sounding recording of an excellent singer/songwriter/guitarist in her prime

Richard Thompson: Some of his classics re-recorded (relatively) recently.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Probably not your kind of music (not mine, either), but this is a superb recording. Not single instrument, but simple, spare arrangements. Also not really minimally mic'd, but minimally effed with.
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Single instrument with vocal OK?

Patty Larkin (Live)
Not the best recording -- but a very honest sounding recording of an excellent singer/songwriter/guitarist in her prime
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Richard Thompson: Some of his classics re-recorded (relatively) recently.

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YES, everyone of these are excellent recordings. Good music too.