So today I’ve been recording a violinist, an incredibly talented violinist named Andrew Sutherland in the Multitrack Studio for my first movement ‘Innocence’.

Audio advisor Steve Kirkby kindly let me borrow his treasured Neumann U87 (over 2 grand in a tiny little wooden box) to use as the close mic (cardioid setting) and I used an AKG C414 as a secondary room mic. I placed them like so:

In retrospect I probably should have wrapped the cables around the stands but anyway… The high placed mic is the close U87, placed up there so as to capture the sound emanating upwards from the bridge and f-holes of the violin.

This is the view from the control room:

Aaand this is the man himself doing his thing: