Benno Streu's vision on Microphones

Mr. Benno Streu is a non guitarplayer that passed away about two years ago.
He did some remarkable things in restauration processes of many older and valuable
instruments.

Not everyone agreed with his methods which were sometimes way too modern
and so not in the tradition of the lutherie in those days but he brought back to life
several instruments that are playable again.

An interesting interview can be seen with Wulfin Lieske about "La Leona" the guitar
Antonio de Torres built but also on the Chladny modes that at different frequencies
have bigger or smaller areas in which the tops of a guitar vibrate.

As for the use of microphones Benno Streu points to an experiment the Sennheiser
company did in order to built a faithfully recording microphone: They simply didn't
succeed as the human ear is ten times more sensitive than that special prototype.

This is the case in general but I think the Vicente Arias' guitars especially are prone
to the way their sound is coming to our ears. I would like to point it this way:
The Vicente Arias 1899 sings in 10 overtone frequencies as opposed to the José
Ramirez who has about three of these frequencies that determines its sound.
Thats why a Jose Ramirez is easy to recognize when recorded but it is much more
difficult for the Arias. It also means that the Vicente Arias has more "faces" though
they both are great guitars to my believe.