[Dixielandjazz] Sound

[Robert S. Ringwald]

eupher61 at hotmail.com wrote:

(snip)
DO NOT put the mic directly in the bell of any horn.  DO NOT use SM-58s for
horns -- they are VOCAL mics, with an intentional "proximity effect", which
increases bass response as the mic is closer to the source.  Thus, pop
singers eating the mic.  That's fine, but not a horn.   Horns have a lot of
color IF the sound is allowed to fully form outside the instrument.  Extreme
close micing eliminates that color, makes for a synthesized sound.  YUCK.
Does anyone like that, except from a synth?
(snip)

Likewise with pianos.  Don't put a mic inside a piano and then close it up 
so the piano player and rest of the musicians on stage cannot hear it, 
except through the monitors.

Besides being very uncomfortable hearing yourself through a monitor 
somewhere on the stage, rather than the piano itself, it also gives the 
piano a really phony sound to the audience.

Good pianos are built to be acoustic, not be closed up with a mic inside of 
them.

Gawd forbid that a sound   from another instrument may get into the piano 
mic.

Perhaps this works in a recording studio with other types of music.  But not 
with OKOM.


--Bob Ringwald K6YBV
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