ABSTRACT
Stereo miking is the preferred way to record classical music ensembles and soloists, such as a symphony performed in a concert hall or a string quartet piece played in a recital hall.
Stereo mic techniques capture the sound of a musical group as a whole, using only two or three microphones. When you play back a stereo recording, you hear phantom images of the instruments in various spots between the speakers. These image locations-left to right, front to back-correspond to the instrument locations during the recording session.
