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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Micing Acoustic Wind instruments?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:48:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.014828.23146@bilver.uucp>
- References: <AfLfzlu00WB9QfU0sz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Jan21.221735.14416@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.221735.14416@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >In article <AfLfzlu00WB9QfU0sz@andrew.cmu.edu> Lisa Laverne Vaughan <lv0e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >>
- >>I had the trouble of "breathing", actually gasping from a cold, being picked
- >>up by the mic. I have a pickup on the flute, but for classical music, the
- >>"key clicks" are too noisy so I opted for the microphone (a vocal mic).
-
- >This is probably more appropriate for rec.audio.pro but I'll answer it
- >here. Close miking for classical isn't a fabulous idea, and you're
- >learning why. Try miking it from the top down ("bird's eye") so that
- >you're breating in the other direction. Also try it above angling the
- >microphone toward the keys.
-
- >>I tried to move the mic further away from me and play in a smallish room, but
- >>then you could hear the distance.
-
- >What pickup pattern is your microphone? A narrow hypercardioid is best
- >for this sort of stuff.
- >
-
- Both problems can be solved by that seldom used pattern - figure 8.
-
- You can angle the mike so the dead side is directly pointing to the
- 'breather' and it just goes away. Because it's pattern doesn't have
- the severe proximity effects as the cardioids you can mike it fairly
- closely too.
-
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