Spot miking captures each instrument with its own near microphone for independent channels

Evidence

The spot microphone technique (also called close miking) records a number of channels, and the final audio content is mixed by an audio engineer. The technique is commonly used to capture a concert or studio session where many instruments are played. A microphone, called a spot microphone, is placed near each source to be captured (Rumsey, 2001). The microphone signals are often required to be as independent as possible, each signal containing sound from one source only. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1834

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the spot/close-miking technique and its goal of per-source channel independence.