Author: faltpihl ★2017
Date: 2014-11-21 11:15
First, thanks for your replies!
Paul:
In the notes that I have the biggest "hiss issue with" you can clearly hear in a chromatic scale, that it goes "clear HISS clear clear HISS HISS" etc. Specially when I had my teacher play, who probably had an even worse mouthpiece/reed/Buffet-habit setup for testing the Libertas properly.
I believe it is very clear that the hiss is coming from the hole where the pad opened, specially in some cases. I first thought there was something stuck in the pad or something because it was a very distinct fuzz.
Again, many notes are perfectly fuzz-free and I am really liking the clarity and sound.
I am guessing this can either be altered by perhaps rising the pads (wont that affect tuning too? Might be benefitial in the places I am experiencing some issues perhaps...)
or by my working on my technique.
I am hesitant to reworking the clarinet unless I get clear indications that it is what is needed, since I fully trust Tom R. who adjusted the clarinet before shipping it. Unless things got really bumpy in the shipping across the globe, I would assume that the clarinet is setup the way it should - if one knows how to play it.
As for the CSG, I have it on trial together with the Libertas at the moment, and am liking the sound/playability about equally. I will try to perform similar tuning tests with both to see if I have the same tendencies on the CSG.
I have never noticed this loud hissing on certain tones on any other clarinet. If I get a "stuffy sound from too hard reeds" for instance, the stuffiness is much less pronounced and is even across the clarinet. This is a much more distinct sound, which is only noticable on certain notes.
locke:
Have you made any attempts on adjusting it/fixing it? Is it only that one place where you get the hissing sound?
WhitePlainsDave:
This is why I'm hesitant on blaming the clarinet first, the sound and foremost the tuning is what people love about these instruments, so something is fishy when I'm so much off!
I did not have enough time with my teacher last time to test tuning with her.
She had very loud hissing issues at least, which was what got our attention the most.
I am mostly playing V12 3 (with my masters CL6 mouthpiece).
But I have tried V12 2.5-3.5 and forestone MS/M.
I have legere 3 and 3.25 available as well as Vandoren 5 in strenghts around 2,5-3.5.
I have NOT balanced my reeds, but I'm GUESSING that the synthetic reeds can be assumed to be well balanced to try removing unbalanced reeds out of the equation?
I have 3 boxes of gonzales FOF in 3-3.5 strength on the way, I have understood that people find these to need less work needed than many others? Perhaps I can try running through all of the reeds in the boxes when I get them to see if there is any noticable difference.
I can also try learning to balance reeds. I have played around a bit with sandpaper and angling the mouthpiece to try finding the "stuffier side" but from the short tests I did, I could not find one side to be much worse than the other, so I just left it.
I have been enjoying the forestone reeds much lately, so that is also a reason why I did not work more on my cane reeds. I found the forestones to not manage to go as loud as my teacher has me going though (I can't make the forestones I have to play in the louder dynamics the same way I can with V12 3½ for instance.)
And yes, the Libertas is brand new! Have it on trial from Ted R.
Regards
Peter
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