Originally Posted By: rockstar_not
Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
I will say this: If you have a singer onstage performing in a soundproof booth, and an audience is watching while listening to the audio feed through headphones, and you don't get to add any artificial stereo effects... it will sound better with two mics! =8^)

This is actually not true. There are many reasons for this fact, not the least that this is a completely artificial scenario that you have proposed.

Of course, it was intended as an absurdly artificial example, and it would be difficult to test my "hypothesis". My point was that stereo sound, especially on headphones, can do more than just provide gross spatial location cues (i.e., low piano notes on the left, high notes on the right). Human hearing does not like a mono signal fed into both ears, this is not a natural experience. But record anything in stereo and the mics are effectively reproducing the binaural arrangement of your ears, so you will get that "open" experience even of a single point source.

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 01/13/22 04:49 AM.