classical music

Hi All,

I'm slowly moving in the direction of being ready to record and to this end have started looking into which acoustic environments best support recording the kind of music I'd like to record, i.e. classical music in its many forms.

A classical music recording newcomer here!

I find myself needing to make very accurate recordings of my wife (a fabulous mezzo) for marketing purposes. Drawing on my extensive experience of making recordings (the musician end -- going all the way back to the 30 ips tape days), I have done some sessions with multiple takes so we can clean up details before the final assemblage. We are recording in our University Concert Hall (1.7 reverb) with the pro recording equipment there and are getting wonderful results.

is it standard, in classical music recording studios, to isolate musicians and have them play live with each other, through listening to their headphones as is done in other studios recording folk, pop, rock etc?

I'm a classical composer and I'm putting together my own recording setup to archive my own works. The recordings do not need to be "professional level" -- this is for my own personal portfolio, not for any kind of wide distribution. I don't have a ton of money to budget, I was thinking maybe $300-400USD total for 2 mics that I could use for simple stereo recording.

Hi!

I'm completely new to the audio recording and I am asking for some advice.
I'm planning to record classical piano with cello (Schubert Arpeggione Sonata).
I have tree mics: RODE NT55 matched pair and Audio-Technica AT2050.
Everything goes to my laptop via Fast Track Ultra.

I thought about using NT55 on piano with omni capsules in A/B technique
(with couple meters distance from the piano and above the lid - it gave me good results previously)

I am doing a project where I am replacing all the audio of a scene in a movie.
Well, right now I need to settle on the music to be used, so I can edit the scene around it.

I need it to be a classical (or atleast in the same ball park) song. This is only a project, so copyright does not apply.

If any one knows where I can find clips, or full songs of some classical music, that would be great.
Or if any of you have some recordings you would not mind sharing with me, that would be all the better.

You're gonna love this one from the NY times yesterday...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09mccallsmith.html?scp=1&sq=and+the+band+played+badly&st=nyt


This should start your week off right.

Phil

Reverb seems to be the thing I lack the most of.
digi verb is a POS, and space designer only runs on logic.

I want something that sounds very natural. To give recordings less dead space when the musicians pause.
I really don't want to spend over a grand on this.

Are lexicons and TCs any good at that price range?

Greetings to all.