Welcome to "Recording Music on Location."
This website contains several audio files that demonstrate various topics in the book, along with some additional downloadable resources
All tracks were engineered by Bruce Bartlett. All music on this website is copyrighted by the original artists and may not be reproduced without permission. Thanks to the Elwood Splinters Blues Band and Paul Thode for the use of their composition, “Water’s Edge,” copyright 1997.
These audio files were produced with Cakewalk® SONAR Producer digital recording software. To provide the best sound quality, the audio files were not processed to maximize their level.
Stereo Microphone Techniques
Speaker Setup
- Introduction
- Channel identification
- Channel balance
- Speaker polarity
Imaging Demo
- Image location versus level differences between channels
- Image location versus time differences between channels
- Image location versus level and time differences between channels
- Coincident stereo mic techniques (intro)
- Coincident cardioids angled 90°.
- Coincident cardioids angled 120°.
- Coincident cardioids angled 180°.
- Near-coincident mic techniques (intro)
- ORTF technique
- NOS technique
- Baffled-omni techniques (intro)
- Jecklin disk
- Sphere microphone
- Spaced-pair techniques (intro)
- Mics 2 feet apart
- Mics 6 feet apart
- Boundary mic techniques (intro)
- Two PZMs spaced 3 feet apart
- Two cardioid boundary mics with NOS technique
Miscellaneous
- Drum set: spaced pair versus coincident pair
- Miking distance and its perceived effect on depth
Popular Music Recording
- Mixing a live recording of a blues band
- Handheld recorder versus multitrack recorder – blues
- Handheld recorder versus multitrack recorder – jazz
- Outro