Sounds good with recording drum overheads, choirs and acoustic guitars. Preferred to the X/Y method for larger stereo width recordings ORTF can still retain good mono material. The ORTF is another popular method of stereo recording because of the realistic stereo sound you can achieve and is considered to be similar to how the human ears perceive sound. This stereo recording method uses two cardioid microphones (ideally the same mic) that are set at angles of 110 degrees and the mics themselves are roughly set at a distance of 17cm apart. The ORTF technique was actually created in France in the early 1960’s by Radio France. It has been known that some producers employ this method along with just a kick drum mic and snare mic! The results can be very interesting!
It is also a very effective method of recording drum overheads because of the area that the spaced pair can cover, and when using omni-directional mics you can pick up a good portion of the room which can be invaluable to recording drum overheads. This method of stereo miking can be very effective when recording musical ensembles such as a jazz quartet or a string section of an orchestra. This will help with phase cancellation problems because if the mics are not spaced the correct distance you can run into all sorts of problems. We will provide you with the theory behind these methods and leave you to experiment!Īs it says on the tin, a spaced pair is exactly that, a pair of two microphones usually cardioid or omni-directional that are spaced apart, as a rule of thumb with a 3:1 ratio distance from the sound source. As with any type of recording, trial and error is a common way of achieving what it is you're after, for instance the Blumlein Pair might sound better to you than the Spaced Pair for heavy rock drums, but for a jazz ensemble, the spaced pair could work better. Below we are going to go through some of the popular stereo miking techniques and how to apply them to your own productions.
Employing one of the many different stereo recording techniques can be much simpler, faster and you can achieve high quality recordings with minimum mics.
Imagine you have landed a session in a church recording a 15-piece choir for example, you are hardly going to set up 15 individual microphones and lug along a desk or interface with enough channels for the session, it's unrealistic, unnecessary and a huge amount of work. Stereo microphone recording techniques are commonly used in the recording process and can offer great flexibility and advantages to recording specific elements.
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