[Dixielandjazz] Jo Trent and mics for tubas

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According to the 1930 US census:

Name: 	Jo Trent
Spouse: 	Nancy
Birth: 	abt 1893 - Illinois
Residence: 	1930 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

The census also states that this Jo Trent is Black.

There are several Jo Trents listed so I do not know that this is the one we're interested in learning about.

  -- Rae Ann


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "eupher dude" <eupher61 at hotmail.com>
> Don, it sounds like a little genealogy work is due for you.  The census 
> records from the 1930 census are available (census records are sealed for 72 
> years) so it should be somewhat easy to find the race information you're 
> looking for.
> ============
> 
> 
> An SM 57 is adequate, if not really responsive to the extreme bottom of the 
> tuba range.  Any mic that is used for a kick drum works reasonably well, 
> also.  I use a Shure BG 4, it was a cheap mic but effective.
> 
> Broadway shows like to use the AKG 418.  It's a great mic, about $400 for 
> the wireless version, and it's great.  The only problem with clipping on a 
> mic to any brass instrument, if the mic is down the bell you're losing a lot 
> of the color of the instrument's tone.I used to have a cheap imitation of 
> the 418, and it was great, but I put it on a 12" boom.  Unfortunately, the 
> mic didn't hold up to the rigors of use I put it through, and it's kaput 
> now.  The BG 4 on a stand is wonderful.   IMNSHO, of course.
> 
> 
> steve
> 
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