Klarinet Archive - Posting 000232.txt from 2005/10

From: "Robert Newman" <bobngaye@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Microphones for clarinets, More Info
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:20:55 -0400

Abe Most used a Shure UT4 system he bought from Sam Ash in L.A. He was
very happy with it and I heard the fine results he got from it at the Sweet
and Hot Festival. The UT4 system uses a tiny mike that is a lavaliere,
and was almost invisible on his chest. The mike was wired to a very small
battery powered transmitter he had fastened to his belt under his jacket.
There is also a tiny receiver connected to the house amp. When he came
onto the stage he would first set the volume over the PA. You could tell
how comfortable he was in the low and middle register. Supremely sensitive
and absolutely no distortion. What a relief, he said, grinning broadly.

Bob Newman

From: "Tom McKay" <tjmckay@-----.edu>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Microphones for clarinets

> Hi
> This has been discussed here before (check the archives:
> http://test.woodwind.org/Search/index.html?klarinet_index=klarinet_index),
> but it would be nice to get the latest information and opinion from people
> with experience with miking a clarinet.
> I don't know brands or details, but Buddy DeFranco (on a visit to Syracuse
> to perform with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra in 2004) had great
> success using a small wireless mike that was attached to a shirt
> buttonhole (right behind the middle of the clarinet). That seems a lot
> simpler than the two-mike systems often suggested.
> Tom McKay
>
>
>
>>Hi to all you experienced players out there from New Zealand!
>>
>>I am wanting some advice on miking my clarinet (Buffet R11). I am an
>>(oldish) amateur player of five years' learning.
>>
>>I will be playing as guest instrumentalist with the local Classical Guitar
>>Society in the Summer Parks programme here on those long summer evenings.
>>
>>Because it is in the open air, with a certain amount of background noise,
>>the guitarists mike their instruments with those little stick-on mikes and
>>have one of their number mix the sound.
>>
>>In such circumstances, what sort of mike do we need for the clarinet?
>>
>>All advice is welcome, as long as it does not cost an arm and a leg!
>>
>>Frank Gaze
>>
>>
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