This came up for me specifically in relation to a gypsy jazz arrangement, where there are two guitars and two violins - with fairly hard panning. The guitars are mono, so no big deal. But was trying to hear/understand if I'm losing something by panning the stereo violin tracks hard right or left. Multi-mic recording makes sense for capturing complex instruments like a violin. I did some googling about stereo recording methods, and this article covers some techniques. The one that makes the most sense for a violin seems to be the mid/side technique. I'm doing my final mixes and audio recording in my DAW, so don't need BiaB to handle the stereo-to-mono aspect. But it would be interesting to have some "recording notes" about particular acoustic RealTracks that might help in determining how to split/process the tracks to maximize the recording technique.

https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/stereo-microphone-techniques/

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