Klarinet Archive - Posting 000981.txt from 2001/01

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] recording
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:26:03 -0500

My suggestion would be to get the mic as far from the clarinet as you can. If
possible, put a stereo pair out where the audience would be, and record both
piano and clarinet from there. If you try to isolate each instrument on a
separate track, you have to get too close, and then you get key noise and
poor tone quality. Clarinet is unique in radiating a very different sound
spectrum in different directions, so you only get a natural sound at a
distance, where reflected sound combines the different spectra. The most
obvious example is if you put a mic on axis looking up the bell -- the sound
has a lot of very high frequencies, and sounds tinny and shrill. Don't let an
inexperienced recording engineer talk you into putting the mic there --
you'll be sorry.

--Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob and Deborah Shaw <theshaws@-----.com>

>After a very frustrating afternoon at my church (who by the way has
>state of the art recording equipment) trying to record a piece for
>clarinet and piano. The problem is that we keep getting key noise and
>the clarinet is much too loud. Are we supposed to use 2 mikes for the
>clarinet? Or is one below the bell okay. I need a recording yesterday
>and am at my wits end.

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