classical music

A classical music recording newcomer here!

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.

Any experienced tips on recording ICM? Specifically speaking-sitar, tabla, tanpura. Mic techniques, mic/preamp/compressor combinations that produced great results?

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.

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.

Greetings to all.

Well, we are now down to 1 classical radio station. It was just annonced that KMZT is switching format to be a country station. This is really unfortunate as many of the local ensembles broadcast on this station. The other classical station is much more corporate in nature- the syndicate dj's to other stations and don't do many live broadcasts.