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Re: Old Pick up mics

Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-12-15 21:55

Indeed I have more experience with barrel mics, and have blabbered on and on more about them here on BBoard, than most. I will try to summarize, and offer links to the other long-winded discussions.

Barrel mics done properly are convenient and offer significant sound isolation compared to any of the other miking possibilities for acoustic clarinet. But ultimately I concluded the clarinet sound captured that way for recording, or sent to a mixing board in a live performance, is missing the characteristic clarinet square wave sound because one or more essential harmonics are missing. It sounds nice enough, but compared to a well placed regular mic, it's no contest.

Long discussion on barrel options and techniques, I made several posts through the years from 2011/7/30 through 2015/8/27-
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=2&i=998&t=998.

A separate thread where I described abandoning barrel mics-
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=429064&t=428938.

Good luck!

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications

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