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Re: About Microphones

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2017-02-23 10:02

>> The question remains though... Is there any solution for every case??? <<

That's an easy question... no

Unless you mean a different solution for every case... and then yes

What I would look for is the solution that is the least compromised for the most situations.

If you can borrow that clip-on mic that's the best first step. Try it and see how it works. Try different positions too - closer to the bell, higher, etc.
The most common way to connect it is approximately like this http://static.keymusic.com/products/222698/XL/akg-cc519-clarinet-clamp-2.jpg

By the way recording your sound with any mic as a test is definitely worth it but I wouldn't give that too much significance. It captures the sound very "direct"and without much or any of the room or your "acoustic" sound. It is especially bad for a pickup, which wouldn't have anything but the direct sound, while in a concert it would actually be amplified in a room.

Unless I use effect pedals, I never use the pickup for a recording, but I use it 90% of the time in concerts, even for an "acoustic" sounding group. It's partly because I play mainly bass clarinet, which is even much worse than clarinet to amplify.
For the situation you described, as much as possible to know from this description, I would absolutely use the pickup. When I don't use it, I usually have a good condenser on a stand, for music that is relatively quiet or "classical "(in sound), though is amplified anyway for whatever reason. The pickup is good enough that I actually never use my double clip-on mic.

Post Edited (2017-02-23 19:33)

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