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Not a good idea and recording

I worked as a recording engineer when I was younger and would encourage you to consider recording with your Bach choir, just keep it simple.

There were two schools of thought, German and British, about recording classical music. The former preferred multitrack recording — this was in the days before digital — while the latter would record directly to stereo if possible and often with a single pair of mics.

All it took was a hall with excellent acoustics and performers who could balance levels correctly, in other words, good musicians.

Technology has lowered the cost of high-grade recording if you keep it simple and mic prices have plummeted.

Get yourself a two-channel mic or matched pair for a few hundred and a two-channel recorder, preferably 24-bit, and make music! — Robert Greer (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

• That was the way Suvi Raj Grubb preferred to do it, if I recall correctly, and I am pretty sure that's how he managed to make the farewell disc for Gerald Moore in such short order. The problem we always have is getting good enough mics; every amateur choir tends to be sop-heavy, our tenors and basses are strong and the balance is good in the venue but when we record it we've almost always found that the bass line is lost. I suspect this is because of where the mics are positioned, the fact that they are designed to pick up speech tones not sung tones, and of course the fact that you have to filter out background noise in a hall. We should try a studio day, I think, with a good engineer with proper kit. Maybe the next Douai programme, which will revisit Schoenberg's Friede Auf Erden. It's a good idea and thank you. Guy (Help!) 22:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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Company drafts

Hi JzG, just following up a comment you made elsewhere. When companies contact OTRS, why not ask them to put their drafts on their websites? That way, editors can use them as source material, as we would any other source. The objection at the moment is that source material from the company is being privileged over any other source, by not being cited, but instead being added directly to the article, with no way to tell the readers that they are reading the company's text.

That was what we always used to do when an article subject asked to add perspective. We asked him to put it on his personal website, then we were able to cite it and quote him. Primary sources are allowed to be used that way so long as they don't swamp the article. SlimVirgin 22:18, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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