Mike's Mobile Mics
Recording Studio in Portsmouth, VA
Live music, live sound has an exceptional character that is the combination of a nice acoustical environment (the hall) and the mental focus of performers who are cognizant of the one-time nature of a live performance. The excitement of performing for an audience cannot be duplicated in the studio; the ambient reflections of a well-designed venue cannot be replicated even by the finest electronic sound effects. Nothing beats real. Capture that real sound by having the audio engineer and his mobile recording studio come to you for remote, on-location digital audio recording.
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read moreMy goal is to produce a realistic sounding recording. I place the microphone cluster near the "best seat in the house" to capture the most natural sound possible. This is called the "point-source" or "minimalist" technique. The microphones "hear" and capture just what you would hear from the same seat. For surround sound recording sessions, I may use five microphones clustered on one stand strategically placed near that "best seat in the house." For a more spacious sound, I may use an augmented Decca Tree arrangement.
Sound Bytes from Mike's Mobile
read moreI am all about high quality, so I find it necessary to apologize in advance for these clips. In order to make them usable on the Internet, I have compressed the dynamic ranges and stored them in (lossy) mp3 format. The finished product of what I do is at least CD quality. If the audio clips do not play, you may not have an audio player installed on your computer. Below are some free players. Make sure you have your player set to stream files. Downloading files before they play may take many minutes.