Your pacing is very straightforward yet you're still entertaining and funny without dragging on for too long. Nice.

I love how this feels like a class and I catch myself taking notes

Thank you a lot for including mono compatibility in your video ! much more helpful, and much appreciated !

As a studying audio engineer, thank you so much for this series. I've developed an actual understanding of these techniques and what mono compatibility is thanks to these videos.

From the enthusiast in Mid-MO, thank you for taking the time to make and post these videos. Your instructions are clear, concise, to the point and very informative. I can't thank you enough for passing this knowledge along. Don't forget about that binaural video! Thanks Again!

This is becoming my favortie audio channel on YB!!!

pleasant lecture style! useful information and relevant humor

Another great video, Mr B! The Blumlein set-up to me easily sounded the best here. The sound breathed. I’ll now be trying the Blumlein technique (using my new Rode NTR ribbon mic pair) on my subsequent choir recordings. More from you please, sir!

Thanks for the printout! I laughed so hard about the polarity switch in Pro Tools, you are so right!

This was great!

Can’t thank you enough for this amazing stereo series. Well done man.

Another good one - thanks Mr. B.!

One thing about M-S. You can use any microphone and pattern for the Mid microphone Including supercardioids, subcardioids or even a shotgun mic. Just make sure that you have the capsules vertically aligned.

Great video, great sound and as a bonus, the portable ORTF guide. Thanks a lot.

You made it very clear😄 thankyou so much mr.b

Thank you ! interesting, helpful and well demonstrated.

Very helpful and clearly explained. Thank you!

A great presentation, thanks!

very useful and well done video!

gracias maestro!

Wow. I find it self (mic technique) And than I find this video series. And I find myself! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

giving me a Bruce Swedien vibe, thanks for sharing the knowledge!

Thanks, very interesting and good video!

Thanks for the printable cheat 😊

Thank you. Great tutorial

As an alternative to the paper triangle in the Description, the iPhone app “Stereo Mic Tools” is an overlay for the phone’s camera that makes it easy to set up ORTF and other stereo configurations where you want your mikes to be at a specific angle and distance apart. You look down through the app at the camera’s live image of your mikes and use the app’s overlay to adjust the mikes’ angle/placement.

A practical consideration... I chose ORTF and Spaced AB because I already have the necessary mikes and I do some of my recording outdoors, which requires wind protection. For Mid-side, I’d need either a combination mike and appropriate dedicated windscreen or a dedicated blimp/windscreen large enough to house two microphones. Cinela’s Leo (a ball-shaped wind protector), and similar products by, for example, Rycote, works for both monaural and ORTF or Spaced AB stereo.

Thanks a lot for this!

Einfach astrein 🔥💛 💛

señor lo amo

Love the picture with your sennheiser MD 441 :D

I've never consumed ALL videos in any of my subscribed contents the way I do here. Thank you Mr. B for making this extremely educational, practical and succinct! This is a great service you provide. I've been a long time avid photographer, but completely new to the world of video / audio recording. I find myself in need of recording high end piano performances, and occasional small ensembles. I have paired matched omni for ambience and/or close miking and supercardioids for in-piano miking, and the multitude of techniques and spacing options associated. I am recording into a Zoom H8 handheld field recorder (which has its own XY mic). I don't use DAW or other mixers, bc luckily (I don't have enough time to learn), I'm not allowed (competition requirements) to alter my recordings.....for now....I'm sure as my interest in audio engineering grows, so will my needs/wants. I need to record straight into a camera without manipulation. I realize the limiting quality is the in camera pre-amp, which I minimized as much as possible. I wonder if you can provide insight into what my settings should be on my H8 and potential mic setup. I find stereo linking of the paired mics more pleasant in the H8 than separate channel recording, but then again, I haven't tried panning individual channels and keeping it separated. Is that something I should do? I'm not sure how to avoid phase cancellation and comb filtering effects. Unfortunately, I am in a time sensitive deadline and found your useful videos too late. Would love to have seen a future video on this subject, but for now, I wonder if you can impart some wisdom for me. Thank you so much!

so fast.couldn't believe.hahahahaha.thx for sharing these precious knowledge.

Might be worth noting that the French equivalent of the BBC/CBC developed stereo ORTF in the early 1960s, at a time when stereo broadcasting was in its infancy and monaural was the norm. Reasonable mono compatibility was essential. Details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTF_stereo_technique

One thing you don't mention in this series is microphone type choices, such as where to use a small diaphragm, large diaphragm, etc. You show examples, and in those examples you describe them, but how about a video dedicated to which type of mic works well in what situations; some generalizations. Where to use a stereo setup and where to use a single mono mic, etc. Your videos are great. It feels like I am one on one or in a small group with the professor.

I have an impression that the ORTF piano sample has a strange sound defect at E of the second octave (in the last arpeggio). Something like a resonance. Is it a side effect of the ortf technique, a glitch of the piano or a glitch of my ears? I hear it both in stereo and mono.

I know it's an old video, but thanks a lot for making and sharing this, it was very helpful to me as well. May I ask what is that particular mic preamp you are showing with the M/S switch?

Thanks for the video. It was slightly confusing that you explained mid/side with a pair of microphones and then recorded the examples with a different pair. Also the mid/side stereo guitar example sounded a little off, not sure what was going on there.

Outstanding tutorial as well as production! (I subscribed) Forgive my lack of experience, but I'm assuming that for the stereo recordings, you recorded each mic on stereo (2) tracks in your DAW. Is this correct or am I missing something? Thank you! :)

Thanks very much! That's a fantastic video with some very important concepts explained so well! I've got a question that I'm hoping you or someone here might answer :) I'm recording a small orchestra (minus strings section) and I'm hoping to use a pair of Rode M5 in either the XY or ORTF position. My question is do I record with Pan set to the Center for both Mics (on the mixer/recorder), or do I need to pan each mic left/right? Any help is much appreciated :)

Hi! What is the best method for amplifying a string quartet in a live and open air concert with stereo microphones? Thank you

Thanks for the video. For the M/S demonstration, it looked to use the Blumlein video takes (the M/S set-up isn't seen). Is the audio in the M/S section from the M/S mics (only the video that's misleading) or accidentally the Blumlein audio again? Just asking as I wanted to compare the sound of M/S to the others..

what microphone is that one on top of the U87 @6:20?

What makes a room sound great? How should it read on a RTA?

I knew your name was Mr. Blumlein 😊

I find that MS in stereo shifts the image away from center.....

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How do you process the Blumlein recording in the DAW?

Do you have to do any panning to ORTF, XY and BLUMLEIN?

Am I crazy or did you recycle your Blumlein footage for what should have been M/S footage? (Is the audio correct?)

Hey. When come video about binaural recording?

that's the easy French tho xD (sorry I missed live premier ... KZfaq gave me wrong time zone)

3 more hours till it premieres :(

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I tried a BL pair with AKG c214s and then the mics got close on top of each other, I got a lot of weird sounds.

2:36 ORTF 5:18 M/S The mics are too close for ORTF to the piano and guitar. The angle and distance would need to be adjusted for this short distance. You are getting a slight hole in the middle with the plain ORTF setup.

BLUMLEIN FOR ME - I got a lot done with one stereo mic and have over thirty videos showing the process if anyone is interested.

Ms sounds squeaky

I would never do an M/S arrangement with 2 large-diaphragm microphones as shown in this video. This "orangutan-like" arrangement would spoil each other's directional characteristics. Much better results can be achieved with 2 small-diaphragm types.