ECHO project

The ECHO project in their own words:
"The ECHO Project invited seven expert recording engineers to explore their approaches to immersive orchestral recording. Eight microphone arrays, each tailored to a specific recording scenario—classical, film score, or game soundtrack—were used to capture the performance of the London Contemporary Orchestra in both traditional and circular layouts at AIR Lyndhurst Hall on 17 Dec 2024. Below, each focus group recording engineer presents their rationale behind their chosen array. " (source)

The ECHO is an acronym for Exploring the Cinematic Hemisphere for Orchestra. 

If you're interested in their excellent recordings using various microphone arrays, we recommend downloading the entire set of files, importing them into your preferred DAW, and enjoying them.
Due to the limited gear on our stock, we can just rebuild some of them. 

One we already did: The "AirCage" system

We will expand this information, as soon as we have some articles and/or tutorials available. So please come back some time later.