ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the arrangement of microphones for optimum sound pickup. It necessarily mentions specific situations and conditions, but since conditions and situations are subject to variation in real life, these setups must be considered starting points rather than rules. In a multitrack recording pickup of music, the focus changes sharply from that of the mono music pickup. A variation in the multitrack methodology embodies an instant mixdown to two tracks during performance. In a monaural pickup of a music group, the prime concern is the pickup of the orchestral blend, as it would sound to a live audience. For stereo pickup, the centrally located mike of the mono pickup becomes two mikes, one angled 45 degrees left and the other 45 degrees right, and each is fed to a separate input channel or a single stereo input channel.
