Bluegrass banjo, or folk banjo?Kasey said:hasn't anyone else ever miced a banjo before?
SouthSIDE Glen said:Hey Slidey, any good skipple tracks on banjo come down your road up there?
G.
Yeah, that's the sort. Though I probably should call it "skiffle" and not "skipple", my typo . Love that stuff.slidey said:actually there's one or two........................I've got a track on my board about Lonnie Donnegan.....................I presume that's what you're talking about????
SouthSIDE Glen said:Yeah, that's the sort. Though I probably should call it "skiffle" and not "skipple", my typo . Love that stuff.
I was just wondering...based upon your slick response to the banjo miking question combined with your geographic location, I thought maybe, hey, here's a guy who's got some of the real thing coming his way once in a while. I was just wondering....
G.
SouthSIDE Glen said:I have to admit that big toes' finding of a beta58 is rather suprising. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it certainly isn't intuitive (as he apparently agrees.)
petimar said:Re- read my earlier post.
Envision the sound you want from the banjo player. Start about a foot in front of the banjo head, where the player strikes the strings, put on your phones and move the mic around until you hear what you want.
You need to do a lot of expermenting with mics and placement.
Tim Brown said:Wait, let me get this straight.
You want to record a banjo?
On purpose?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, now that I have that out of my system....sorry it couldn't be helped, my brother has a banjo - a really nice one actually, and of course the first thing he learned was dueling banjo's and whenever he plays it he stops in the middle and goes "Squeal Like a Pig!"
Personally, I would use a small condenser with a large dynamic and try to get a blend of the two. We used an MXL 603 and an AKG D112 an he was fairly happy with the results. Banjo is really all about the attack, so you don't want to get tooooooo close with the condenser....or at least that's my take on it.
Tim