Stereo recording techniques

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Table of contents

1. Head related stereophony (Dummy-head stereophony)

2. Room related stereophony

3. Level suppression due to delay time differences

4. Stereo-Signals

4.1 Stereo-Signals Summary

5. Intensity stereophony

5.1 Single microphone technique
5.2 XY-microphone technique
5.3 MS-microphone technique

6. Equivalent directional characteristics combinations XY-MS

7. Use of coincident-microphones in practice

7.1 Representation of sound sources on the stereo basis
7.2 Orientation of the coincident microphone
7.3 Practical limitations of XY/MS equivalencies

8. Use of several stereo-microphones plus support microphones

8.1 Direction Mixers and Panorama Potentiometers
8.2 Pan-pot and direction mixer (equivalent settings)
8.3 Principle of a panorama-potentiometer
8.4 Practical use of stereo support microphones

9. Delay time Stereophony (AB-Stereophony)

10. Problems of level control

11. Correlation and correlation-degree (Compatibility)

11.1 Correlation-degree
11.2 Correlation degree meter
11.3 Stereoscope

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