Topic: Recording Techniques for sub-optimal positions

[stevetoney]

If you're way outside the center, recording with two mics is more about capturing ambience than anything, so i'm not sure your config in that situation is all that important. 

One radical method seldom mentioned here but it really can be effective in resurecting a stereo train wreck is is to take the better sounding of your two cjannels..ie the one pointed at the closer stack.  Copy that to each track, offset one track from the other by a msec or so and then eq each track individually.  You can create a simulated stereo image that can be quite convincing using this technique.  I've had to use this technique now and then if I have a channel drop out issue.  This can be handy when you have only one good track.

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when outside the center or in line with just one stack like in that pic, I'd go for a wider spacing and just AB them at the good stack. The odds it's in stereo is small anyway.

[cashandkerouac]

sometimes the sweetspot isn't where you think it is.  get creative.  some of my best recordings were made is unnusual locations.  those folks in the OTS don't know what they're missing sometimes.   

i used to blindly go to the OTS or a "traditional" FOB position, and sometimes that works out just fine.  but i've also come to learn (with some help from a good friend) there are lots of other good spots (sometimes much better spots) for getting the best pull if you're willing to put in the work.

[F.O.Bean]

sometimes the sweetspot isn't where you think it is.  get creative.  some of my best recordings were made is unnusual locations.  those folks in the OTS don't know what they're missing sometimes.   

i used to blindly go to the OTS or a "traditional" FOB position, and sometimes that works out just fine.  but i've also come to learn (with some help from a good friend) there are lots of other good spots (sometimes much better spots) for getting the best pull if you're willing to put in the work.

Im all about getting the best pull with minimal chatter, said and done!!!!  99% of that time its FOB/DFC in the sweet spot. But I do have a few OTS tapes that rival my FOB sources of the same mic/pre/adc/recorder sources