[Dixielandjazz] Sound

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

What about putting the mike behind the piano to pick up the sound board?  I 
personally prefer in front and above the piano and if it's an upright to 
open the top.  If it's a grand we don't often mike the piano but if it is we 
usually open the top and point a mike in sometimes with a boom.  This 
happens if the grand is pointed the wrong way.  My current piano player 
doesn't like to play with a lot of force and doesn't play loud enough.

Where is the best place for the two types of piano and what happens if you 
have a spinet or the top won't open?

Also someone made a statement about not knowing how to mike a banjo.  Where 
is the best place to put a mike?  We almost never need that but I would like 
to hear what anyone thinks about miking various instruments.

Also what's a good (hopefully inexpensive) tuba mike?
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sound


> 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
> 530/642-9551
> 916/806-9551 Cell
> www.ringwald.com
> Fulton Street Jazz Band
>
>
>
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