Some of the best recordings in our planet were done directly to mono or stereo.
Years ago I thought this only meant one microphone or 2 microphones only.
Not nessasarily so.
While Blumlein pairs or binaural pairs can be superb, on pop music and not only it is best to have the mic as close as 3-4in to the source. It can be less it can be more but not 3ft. As Frank Laico says you can't get a bass sound that way.
So every instrument is near its microphone. An obvious example is Take Five - Dave Brubeck recorded at CBS 30th street church in New York.
It is possible to combine the signal from more than one microphone without the need of a mixing (adding is the correct word in electronic engineering) console or desk.
Many microphones can be directly connected to each other in series or parallel combinations. And the sound can be superb as it is possibly the most simple signal path on earth.
He would a full orchestra sound recorded this way. The signal from many microphones connected together can be so strong that a preamplifier may not be needed. Each musician does not need to play loud as there is a microphone next to him-her.
It is simple inexpensive as only microphones are needed. And a parallel series combination of many microphones can make again a resultant equivalent mic of 200ohms or 600ohms or anything desired to even connect directly to a analog to digital converted or a analog tape recorder.
More on examples of connections on the following euroelectron post.
Reference:
Anatomy of a session - Frank Laico - AES
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJbhGHmY_UA
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