Klarinet Archive - Posting 001003.txt from 2001/01

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] recording
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:07:26 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen J. Levin [mailto:alevin@-----.net]
>
> I learned it from my college clarinet prof. - Dennis Kudlawiec - now
> teaching somewhere in Mississippi. I said that it was an old
> trick; but it
> used to work. (I assume were talking tape recording here.) As
> was pointed
> out by someone, the overtones of the clarinet are so different from other
> instruments that there is a mismatch - of sorts - between the optimum
> settings for the clarinet and the piano.
>

The rules aren't any different for analog recording than for digital. The
techniques have not really changed in the past 50 years. The equipment sure
has, but the techniques have not. Put a pillow over your ears. You can't
hear much, huh? That is what the mic picks up with a pillow over it.
Acoustic rules don't change with time.

Speaking of piano, one of my pet peeves is people who insist on keeping the
lid down all the way. It does not make it softer, rather it just muffles
the sound... When the lid is up, it helps all the sounds radiate out of the
instrument evenly. With the lid closed, you are just playing in a box. The
lid of the instrument can also help your sound project. It gives you a hard
surface behind you that the sound can reflect off of to project.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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