ABSTRACT
One of the challenges facing performers who wish to record works from the past in an historically informed manner centers on finding acoustic spaces similar to those in which the music would have been heard originally. Large churches, the typical venues for recording older music, are far too reverberant for much of the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, and this chapter discusses how a group of recordists created the soundscape of historic spaces through modern studio techniques designed to make listeners feel as though they were sitting in the same small room as the performers. The chapter focuses on pre-production preparation, production practices, and post-production editing and mixing (reverb, compression, and EQ).
