Stereo Mic Recording Explained: XY, Mid-side, Blumlein & Spaced-pair Techniques

[@sweetwater]

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[@rombsix]

Spaced pair - 3:01 XY convergent - 5:54 XY divergent - 6:26 Mid-Side - 8:43 Blumlein - 10:36

[@endlesscurrent]

Deserves the Good Human Being Award 🏆- Thank you very much.

[@StudioBuster]

THANK YOU A LOT maaan ! You just made my life easier !

[@stevekatz5685]

Awesome video - a lot of great content here (and new to me since i’m mostly mic’ing an amp or recording direct!) You did a great job going over the strengths and limitations of each technique but, to my ears the Blumlein was the richest sound! Very well done - looking forward to more!!

[@StudioBuster]

Thank you very much! Very efficient presented important info for me!

[@joshuariveraflora]

This was a great video! Very helpful.

[@alexanderpiano1506]

Thank you for the excellent detail in a short video. The panning and L/R channel comment was crucial! Also good to hear and know the divergent is exactly the spacing I want for a vocal up the middle. Thank you!

[@canimob]

Very useful video, thanks for putting in the time! The only additional thing I'd love to see/hear is a direct comparison of all these techniques done with the same pair of mics - would have made detecting the differences in stereo imaging easier as the listener's ear wouldn't be drawn by the differences in frequency response.

[@BobPerrone]

Great stuff, very helpful

[@glendoggett9670]

Yo, Chris, what’s up, dude!

[@hotdogproaudio]

hey Glen! hope you've been doing well, buddy :)

[@Bhallmed]

I do blumlien all the time and love it

[@RickMcCargar]

When you change the type of mic, we can't tell how much of the difference we hear is due to the microphone model vs style of placement.

[@nnamdinwachukwu9877]

We cool.

[@andrewsun4385]

Awesome!!!❤❤💯💯

[@unowcres]

Thank you for making this video! Really useful information that I will look into! Can you do one on concert band/orchestra recording techniques? Thank you again for this!

[@RobertSaxy]

Great info, I would like to see recording techniques for instrument and space specific recording. Like bras, woodwind, organs etc and taking the room out it or capturing a recording with great natural reverb

[@briannacery9939]

Mid side sounded warbly. Mid spaced sounded good.

[@simaoalmeida9579]

what music is play?

[@gori_maheswari8994]

Happy new year

[@burrowsworth9534]

Mid-side is so good until you collapse it into mono. Used ot for ages and then ran into that issue, now i tend to use Steve Albini's with the mics on the floor.