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Query: Close Miking Empirical Practice Verification: A Source Separation
  Approach   Close miking represents a widely employed practice of placing a microphone
very near to the sound source in order to capture more direct sound and
minimize any pickup of ambient sound, including other, concurrently active
sources. It is used by the audio engineering community for decades for audio
recording, based on a number of empirical rules that were evolved during the
recording practice itself. But can this empirical knowledge and close miking
practice be systematically verified? In this work we aim to address this
question based on an analytic methodology that employs techniques and metrics
originating from the sound source separation evaluation field. In particular,
we apply a quantitative analysis of the source separation capabilities of the
close miking technique. The analysis is applied on a recording dataset obtained
at multiple positions of a typical musical hall, multiple distances between the
microphone and the sound source multiple microphone types and multiple level
differences between the sound source and the ambient acoustic component. For
all the above cases we compute the Source to Interference Ratio (SIR) metric.
The results obtained clearly demonstrate an optimum close-miking performance
that matches the current empirical knowledge of professional audio recording.

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