Well, I still find that recordings of orchestras with a pair of mikes sounds
more realistic. However in other situations, as some instruments are quiet
compared to others, I can see why they need close miking.

Also of course there is the background noise whether it be audio in a venue
or just hiss.
I have heard some awful Piano recordings where the his plays along as if a
noise gate is being used at a low level. Church organ recordings are often
very audio noisy, as one cannot move a church away from traffic and
sometimes the pump can be heard and with dodgy microphone placement the
chuffing noises are out of proportion to the notes.. Also of course both
piano and Organs have huge dynamic ranges.
With more popular recordings one obviously uses some compression. Some are
bad and you can hear it, others more sane and nice sounding!


However even some pop recordings from eh past made by emi, seem to have a
lot of problems with the pop effect, which were no obvious back in the day
on a scratchy 45!
Brian

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On Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:22:52 UTC+3, Brian Gaff wrote:

No I don't mean going back to a close miked up every single instrument
and
a mixer you need to be Twizzle to operate.
Brian

With the exception of classical, and some jazz recordings, close mic is and
has been for many years, standard practice. One also adds "air mics" in a
pair or Decca tree. So on a multitrack recording, 48 channels, each
recorded close mic is by no means unusual.

Iain