Base tone is around 70 Hz (concert C sharp). What is a good kind of
microphone to use with it? Best to place in front of bell or farther
away (or both)?

Thanks,
-DanielG

Delaware wrote:
Base tone is around 70 Hz (concert C sharp). What is a good kind of
microphone to use with it? Best to place in front of bell or farther
away (or both)?

Some of the sound comes from the bell, but some of the buzzy stuff is
coming out of the body. I'd tend to pick a small diaphragm condenser
mike without a presence peak.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

What is a good kind of
microphone to use with it? Best to place in front of bell or farther
away (or both)?

I put a U87 out a couple feet away where it will get reflections off
the hardwood floor as well as directly from the end of the instrument.
Height off the floor is determined by what gives you the best sounding
constructive additon of direct & diffuse & the least loss of low end
due to combing. Usually this means about a foot or so off the floor,
maybe less.

Scott Fraser

On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:08:03 -0400, Delaware
wrote:

Base tone is around 70 Hz (concert C sharp). What is a good kind of
microphone to use with it? Best to place in front of bell or farther
away (or both)?

Thanks,
-DanielG

What does your room sound like? Is it a large space?
Distance might be better if the sound blooms nicely in the space.
I'd tend to go for a U47fet type clone for close miking. Like a
AT4047. But without trying a few things you never know if you've got
the best possible result.

What does your room sound like? Is it a large space?
Distance might be better if the sound blooms nicely in the space.
I'd tend to go for a U47fet type clone for close miking. Like a
AT4047. But without trying a few things you never know if you've got
the best possible result.

Consider me an amateur/hobbyist. I have my bedroom (plaster walls,
carpeted floor. large room) and my living room (hardwood floor). any
more ideas?

Thanks,
-DanielG

What does your room sound like? Is it a large space?
Distance might be better if the sound blooms nicely in the space.
I'd tend to go for a U47fet type clone for close miking. Like a
AT4047. But without trying a few things you never know if you've got
the best possible result.

Consider me an amateur/hobbyist. I have my bedroom (plaster walls,
carpeted floor. large room) and my living room (hardwood floor). any
more ideas?

Thanks,
-DanielG

I have my bedroom (plaster walls,
carpeted floor. large room) and my living room (hardwood floor). any
more ideas?

Traditional playing style is to rest the end of the instrument on the
floor, or if in the outback, while seated on the ground, between the
crook of your big toe & middle toe. If you end up in the carpeted room,
definitely put a sheet of plywood under the end. If in the living room,
you're already there. Even if you don't rest the end of the didj on the
floor, it will work best in the hardwood floored room. I've worked with
some players who prefer to rest the middle of the didj on a chair, with
the bell about a foot off the floor. Same miking still applies in that
case. You want some ambience & reflection off the floor. Otherwise the
instrument sounds smaller than it really is.

Scott Fraser