In this week’s Audio Premium content, Björgvin Benediktsson takes us on a tour of a dozen or so stereo microphone techniques.

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Just when you thought you had gotten to grips with using a microphone to record with you find out that you will be needing more. For that stereo sound you know? You don’t? Well, that’s just all right since there is nothing to be nervous about stereo recording techniques. If anything, they are even more pleasurable than normal recordings, giving you more sonic information from the instrument at hand. Tell me, which would you rather have; a one microphone acoustic guitar that only has a little body and attack to it, or would you rather have a stereo recording of that same acoustic complete with the fullness and richness of the body and the brilliance of the strings? You don’t even need to answer that, who doesn’t want an amazing sounding guitar track?

Table of Contents

• Coincident Pair Techniques
• The X/Y Technique
• The Middle Side Technique
• The Blumlein Technique
• Near-Coincident Microphone Techniques
• ORTF
• NOS
• Binaural Techniques
• Quasi Binaural Techniques
• Spaced Pairs
• The A-B Technique
• The 3:1 Rule
• The Faulkner Array
• Decca Tree
• Which Technique to Choose?
• Conclusion

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