Help! Best Mic/Setup to Record a Oboe?

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Hey Moresound, member the guy that brought the Upright bass, well I recorded him I bought the Joe meek pre & a Omni mic from GC, guess what, "HE'S GOT FRIENDS" with other wired instruments that nobody plays unless there in a senior citizens band camp!!! Need your help again, send me your # got a new iPhone.
 
Oh & a harp he has a gal that has a harp I'll find out more details on the harp never mic'ed up a harp in my life!!!
 
Ok the harp is hose big 7 foot harps..JESSUSSS!!! WHO PLAYS THOSE THINGS!!!! I only see those things in movies & orchestras


Hell who packs those things???? :eek:
 
Advice for how to record classical instruments depends entirely on the size of the room. Most such instruments sound best when mic'd from three feet away or farther. This is not practical in a bedroom studio, but it's a piece of cake in a real studio.

--Ethan
 
Ethan Winer said:
Advice for how to record classical instruments depends entirely on the size of the room. Most such instruments sound best when mic'd from three feet away or farther. This is not practical in a bedroom studio, but it's a piece of cake in a real studio.

--Ethan
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Have a studio, have 3 rooms one large room to smaller rooms we use for drums what the best room?
 
Am glad that the recording of the stand up came out really good enough for ya that he brought the entire senior citizen band camp back with him.

Oboe - SDC or LDC out front in the bell. Much like a clarinet.

Harp - much like a piano except the distribution is vertical.
Again with an omni microphone (see I told you every studio needs at least one) about three or four feet (or more - you decide) out from the side of the harp but up a bit more than the three feet from the floor as with the stand up for you don't want floor reflection. In the biggest room that you can find, small rooms make the harp sound boomy.
You will want lots of room reflections in your recording of the harp. And may need to go to your local town hall, church or school gym! For not only will you have to move the position of the microphone to find the sweet spot you will have to move the harp within the room to find the harp/room sweet spot. Start kind away from the center of the room towards a corner keeping you microphone towards the center of the room.

You can try an A B stereo micing of he harp as well. But I myself would go with the omni microphone.
 
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jaynm26 said:
Ok the harp is hose big 7 foot harps..JESSUSSS!!! WHO PLAYS THOSE THINGS!!!! I only see those things in movies & orchestras


Hell who packs those things???? :eek:
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Big concert size harp!
You may need to go out from the harp with the microphone as tall as it is ... ie. seven feet. And a bit higher off of the floor.

And it's funny usually those concert harps are played by petite woman. :eek:
 
Oboe a few feet in front of the player LDC, harp LDC a foot from the (vertical) center of the board (facing the board) and personally, I like a spaced pair around the height of the player's head on either side of the column to help grab the plucks a little better (roll off the lows - a lot - on those. Otherwise, serious phase problems in the low end will result).
 
Massive Master said:
Oboe a few feet in front of the player LDC, harp LDC a foot from the (vertical) center of the board (facing the board) and personally, I like a spaced pair around the height of the player's head on either side of the column to help grab the plucks a little better (roll off the lows - a lot - on those. Otherwise, serious phase problems in the low end will result).
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Yes! This set up with the harp if everyone is playing at the same time. But you'll find that the harp should be recorded solo. IMHO YMMV.
 
That's how I'd record it solo. Live, just the mic on the soundboard.
 
Live yes, close micing on the sound board.
Many harps that I've run across have a plugin to an internal pick up that goes to a Di for a live situation.
 
OK thanks so much more & Massive im finna go check out it out
 
moresound said:
Live yes, close micing on the sound board.
Many harps that I've run across have a plugin to an internal pick up that goes to a Di for a live situation.
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you mean like a insert to amp the sound of the harp?????
 
Like a built-in contact mic. Akin to a guitar pickup, but not quite.
 
Hey Jay ..... I've meant to turn you on to some very cool omni microphones from Jon O'Neal HERE is his web site. You'll find that the prices are unbelievably low. So low that I have a few of each!
 
jaynm26 said:
Have a studio, have 3 rooms one large room to smaller rooms we use for drums what the best room?
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Large to you might not be to me, and vice versa. What are the dimensions of each room?

--Ethan
 
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