Richard King: Stereo and Surround Microphone Techniques for Acoustic Music Recording

Richard King is Senior Recording Engineer, Sony Music, USA.

ABSTRACT:
As multichannel recording gains momentum in the audio industry, most record labels are still focusing on the stereo releases in the marketplace. A presentation of recording in both stereo and multichannel including microphone placement for orchestra, followed by some discussion of mixing techniques for both classical and pop multichannel recordings.

About Richard King:
Richard King holds a Bachelor of Music from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a Master of Music/Major in Sound Recording from McGill University . After two seasons of recording at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, summer home of the Boston Symphony, he moved to New York to work for Sony in 1992.
Richard is currently a Senior Recording Engineer at Sony Music Studios in NYC, specializing in the location recording of orchestra, chamber music, jazz, and film scores. He has engineered a wide variety of recordings for Compact Disc, SACD, Film, DVD, in both stereo and various surround formats. He has also remastered numerous analog recordings for reissue on CD & SACD Surround.
CIRMMT/AES Lecture Series

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