"Iain Churches" wrote

The objectives in recording are totally different.

I don't buy it.

In big band recording, the objective is to record a
close up hard hitting image (listen to Buddy Rich)
In classical recording the objective is to record a
performance set back in its acoustic environment.
Two totally different techniques are required, which
is why since the fifties up to the present day, the finest
big band recordings have been multi mic, and the
finest classical recordings are made with pairs, or
trees often with outriggers.


What sort of "classical" are you talking about here? Plainsong or Gershwin?,
Bach or Wagner? If you are suggesting that Big Bands require a different
technique how can you lump all of those very different styles together?

In any case as you yourself have said so often a recording studio doesn't
really have an "accoustic environment". As far as I am aware the vast
majority of studio recordings of classical music use multi-miking, and have
done for many years.

David.