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Grumpy Mod
There is a violinist who comes around to record stuff.
She hails from Perth (Western Australia). When she was there, she played in a variety of bands, but was never happy with her fiddle sound, particularly when using pickups. So she did a bit of searching around, and eventually found a set-up that worked well for her.
She got herself an Audio Technica AT853a, a microphone that I believe is generally designated as a 'hanging mike', i.e. used in halls to mike up choirs.
However, instead of the wire frame used to position a hanging mike, this has a cradle in which the mike sits, and this cradle then attaches to a conventional mike stand, which is how she uses it for her fiddle on stage.
She brought it around and we did some recordings with it. What an awesome sound!!
Here is a 60 second clip as an example:http://www.box.net/shared/ov2fb3fv48
Note that there is no EQ, no compression, no nothing on this fiddle, other than some reverb.
So I think t myself that having such a mike would be a real handy weapon to have in one's arsenal. So I went searching.
I can find Audio Technica U853 in various configurations on the web, but not the AT853a as designated on the box in which her mike came. Nor can I find any references to the cradle in which the mike sits (either as a separate accessory, or as part of a unit).
Can anyone help?
She hails from Perth (Western Australia). When she was there, she played in a variety of bands, but was never happy with her fiddle sound, particularly when using pickups. So she did a bit of searching around, and eventually found a set-up that worked well for her.
She got herself an Audio Technica AT853a, a microphone that I believe is generally designated as a 'hanging mike', i.e. used in halls to mike up choirs.
However, instead of the wire frame used to position a hanging mike, this has a cradle in which the mike sits, and this cradle then attaches to a conventional mike stand, which is how she uses it for her fiddle on stage.
She brought it around and we did some recordings with it. What an awesome sound!!
Here is a 60 second clip as an example:http://www.box.net/shared/ov2fb3fv48
Note that there is no EQ, no compression, no nothing on this fiddle, other than some reverb.
So I think t myself that having such a mike would be a real handy weapon to have in one's arsenal. So I went searching.
I can find Audio Technica U853 in various configurations on the web, but not the AT853a as designated on the box in which her mike came. Nor can I find any references to the cradle in which the mike sits (either as a separate accessory, or as part of a unit).
Can anyone help?
