In many ways, faithfully recording a live concert presents the ultimate challenge to a sound engineer – capturing the excitement of a live event but at the same time maintaining the high sound quality demanded by a listening public used to carefully controlled studio recordings.

Recording companies offer live recording services at widely differing costs. Often, at the cheaper  end, you will simply get someone with a single pair of microphones and a recording machine who may well sit in the auditorium with a pair of headphones. The results can be very disappointing and often bear little or no relation to the live event. This is in part to do with the human brain’s remarkable ability to simultaneously process the sound we hear together with what we see and know, to produce the desired result – thus it is possible to sit anywhere in a concert hall from the front row of the stalls to the back of the gallery and still enjoy the performance. Just imagine the sound captured by a microphone at the back of the gallery – distant, indistinct and unfocussed.

The live recording services offered by Jubilo Music provide a more sophisticated solution, using carefully considered multiple miking techniques, we obtain strong clear signals. Most live recordings consist of both the performers on stage and the concert venue.  The microphones we use will be visible but we aim to be discreet and their presence should in no way spoil the audience’s enjoyment of the event. We always use the rehearsal on the day as a balance test and to finalise microphone positions and stage layout. At times, the rehearsal is recorded for back up files.  Jubilo Musicr ecording packages may also include the editing of  the concert to remove excessive pauses to produce a finished stereo recording on CD-R within a few of days of the concert.