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 Re: Regular microphone not barrel mic
Author: fskelley 
Date:   2015-09-06 16:50

The reason I went years with the barrel mics is precisely because they are really quite good. And as I have pointed out, they carry significant practical advantages, both in recording and live performance situations. But alas, they lose critical tone nuances.

David, you are correct to point out the absurdity of spending great $$$ and time and energy on producing the most wonderful clarinet sound we can muster- and then passing that sound through an inferior channel. Even if the difference is subtle, we routinely go to great lengths for very minor improvements, that we really are not that sure do anything. 70% of this BBoard is such stuff.

Now I have a whole set of YouTube videos that I must redo. Over the brief years I've been at this, many aspects of my play have improved considerably, so the older videos were already a bit painful for me to hear, and I was working my way through updating them. But now I feel I must redo even the most recent of them. Whatever it is we do, we should always do the best we are able.

I did consider retaining the barrel mics for live solo performance. I've played at my own church about 15-20 times over the past several years through them, and in a couple of other venues. I know from an occasion or 2 when the barrel mic failed at an inopportune time, that the natural clarinet sound does not carry much in our auditorium without reinforcement, especially with my sequenced backing tracks pumping through the system. So that means mostly what people were hearing was the barrel mic tone- might as well have been one of my barrel recordings. And it will sound better from an "outside" mic, so now that's what I will deal with. Eventually I will experiment with instrument mounted condensers- but I think that's just convenience not sound, for solo clarinet.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications
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