Sennheiser Microphones Used at the 2017 Chelsea Music Festival

The 2017 Chelsea Music Festival, which took place in June at St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, utilized Sennheiser’s immersive AMBEO 3D audio format to record the festival.

Live recording experts Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz, both of Anderson Audio New York, ran the technology from Sennheiser for a 3D capture of the performances. Anderson and Schwarz’s miking solution included ten fixed microphones suspended from wires stretched across the chapel. The recording setup also included the original MKH 800 from Sennheiser and a pair of Sennheiser’s MKHC 8020 microphone heads.
 
“I really think it captures the energy of the performances,” Schwarz said. “You get the perspective of the audience being there live in the room, but you also have an optimized recording from the closer microphones. Bass-heavy instruments in particular sound so much better when you bring them into 3D. So I expect both the performances and recording clarity to be spectacular.”