Treeline
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I'm biting off more than I can chew again.
Recently I was asked to take on a project that is a bit of a "holy grail" search. A local artist performs with a violin that can be majestic in live performance, but to date has sounded merely nice when recorded. I can't miss this opportunity but I'm a bit nervous about saying OK.
My approach would be to experiment, promise nothing but best efforts, seek to use what I have to best advantage, and do one thing at a time. I may be working on a demo first, and then just keep at it until we find the "grail" or run out of steam. (Mangled metaphors at work).
I have a basic complement of mics and access to some others as well; so far it's a pair of SP B1s, a C3, a pair of MXL 603s, and I can get a pair of Crown small condensers that just did wonderous work with a 7' Steinway at a concert. I can borrow an AT4055 and maybe a few other big mics. We do not have any valve mics. My preamp is a DMP3 and the recorder is pretty good - an AKAI DPS16 that will do 24 /96, two mics on a solo instrument, well. We have to find a room; I have no studio space and we will have to commandeer a small church or something.
I've done violin / viola work before and getting decent, clean, pretty well modulated signal is not a problem.. getting make your knees weak signal is what I'm after. That hasn't happened yet and I expect it will be elusive as hell.
I'd be grateful for any thoughts, war stories, advice and so on. Thanks!
Recently I was asked to take on a project that is a bit of a "holy grail" search. A local artist performs with a violin that can be majestic in live performance, but to date has sounded merely nice when recorded. I can't miss this opportunity but I'm a bit nervous about saying OK.
My approach would be to experiment, promise nothing but best efforts, seek to use what I have to best advantage, and do one thing at a time. I may be working on a demo first, and then just keep at it until we find the "grail" or run out of steam. (Mangled metaphors at work).
I have a basic complement of mics and access to some others as well; so far it's a pair of SP B1s, a C3, a pair of MXL 603s, and I can get a pair of Crown small condensers that just did wonderous work with a 7' Steinway at a concert. I can borrow an AT4055 and maybe a few other big mics. We do not have any valve mics. My preamp is a DMP3 and the recorder is pretty good - an AKAI DPS16 that will do 24 /96, two mics on a solo instrument, well. We have to find a room; I have no studio space and we will have to commandeer a small church or something.
I've done violin / viola work before and getting decent, clean, pretty well modulated signal is not a problem.. getting make your knees weak signal is what I'm after. That hasn't happened yet and I expect it will be elusive as hell.
I'd be grateful for any thoughts, war stories, advice and so on. Thanks!