Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2022-03-19 18:02
First to answer your question: A equilibrium between both is my personal preference- I like warmth, body & focus in my sound but I do want enough liveliness, clarity & projection. While my setups(especially on bass) is definitely on the resistant side, I also know when the resistance and darkness of sound becomes excessive that it become stuffy and uncomfortable to play, and actively avoid that. Nor do I like playing on setups that are too light(though Brad Behn will disagree with me, and I fully respect that) which decreases the stability of the instrument's response as well as making the tone less uncontrollable It's all about balancing between both for me really.
THAT SAID, my opinion above only serves as a reference, NOT a hard-and-fast rule to live and die by. The only takeaway here is that avoid playing on something that makes you work excessively with less efficiency nor something that sacrifices too much stability for the sake of making it overly freeblowing. However there is NO universal threshold on this, every player(in conjunction with their teachers/colleagues) has to decide where the happy medium is.
As long as you like the sound and feel comfortable on the setup, choose it and go make your music! It may still be a skill which needs work & practice, but always remember that you make music on the clarinet because you genuinely enjoy it, so live out your music career that way and no less!
Josh
Post Edited (2022-04-07 16:40)
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