The Multi-Mic Orchestral Template System

How Professional Film Composers Organise Mic Positions for Clean, Powerful Mixes

Most composers:

  • Load every mic position

  • Kill their CPU

  • Have muddy mixes

  • Lose clarity in large arrangements

Professional composers:

  • Choose perspective first

  • Pre-mix their template

  • Disable unused mic positions

  • Build routing from the start

✔ Multi-Mic decision framework
✔ Routing structure examples
✔ CPU optimisation strategies
✔ Cubase version
✔ Logic version

Created by working film composers sharing real-world template systems.