It all goes to show that "Micing up is hard to do." Bill [sorry . . .] From: David Tayler <vidan...@sbcglobal.net> To: lute <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2012, 4:20 Subject: [LUTE] Re: miking a lute/theorbo Well, yesss, we can take it to extremes! But four mics is really ten times better than two, and you don't need more than six, and you can make a very, very good recording with two if you are willing to spend time on the placement to get it really perfect. Fortunately, it is all going to video now, and so the audio has to be good, but not as good. No need to fill in the image, the image is there. dt __________________________________________________________________ From: Christopher Wilke <[1]chriswi...@yahoo.com> To: [2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Brad Walton <[3]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> Sent: Wed, April 4, 2012 10:55:36 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: miking a lute/theorbo Recipe for a really super natural lute sound: 1) Use 20-50 prohibitively expensive mics. 2) Place them at least 415 feet away from the instrument. 3) Arrange them in an incredibly intricate array involving rigging from a chemistry lab reminiscent of a bad sci-fi movie. (Be sure to record in no less than four channels.) 4) After recording, digitally manipulate the product with at least 4000 edits, taking special care to remove all aspects of the natural sound you don't actually mean to be heard (finger noises, fret buzz, the real sound your lute makes, etc.). 5) Liberally slather "La cathedrale engloutie" reverb all over the finished product. 6) Serve, relishing how your colleagues will compliment you on sounding so natural it is even better than the real thing. Chris Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A. Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer [1]www.christopherwilke.com --- On Tue, 4/3/12, Brad Walton <[2][4]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> wrote: From: Brad Walton <[3][5]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> Subject: [LUTE] miking a lute/theorbo To: [4][6]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:05 PM Hello folks, On the weekend I recorded two pieces in a professional recording studio. I was accompanying a singer on the theorbo. The recording engineer aimed two mikes quite close to the body of the theorbo. On the recording, the sound of the theorbo is very tinny and distorted, and bears almost no similarity to the natural/ acoustic sound of the instrument. Has anybody had experience with miking a lute or theorbo for recording? What mike placement gave you the best results so far as concerned fidelity to the natural sound of the instrument? Thanks, Brad To get on or off this list see list information at [1][5][7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [6][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [9]http://www.christopherwilke.com/ 2. mailto:[10]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca 3. mailto:[11]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca 4. mailto:[12]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 5. [13]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. [14]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
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