Shure SM 58 inside my Banjo ...

[lurgan liar]

Hey guys , i thought i'd just try this for fun to see what the sound would be like ...and it actually sounds pretty cool... I opened up my Tenor Banjo and wrapped an SM 58 around the truss rod

Irish Reel - Banjo

This is an Irish Traditional Tune (A reel)...i intend to make a long version with guitars and bass in it also and try and Rock it up a bit lol ....

Enjoy

 

[Dogman]

Hey guys , i thought i'd just try this for fun to see what the sound would be like ...and it actually sounds pretty cool... I opened up my Tenor Banjo and wrapped an SM 58 around the truss rod

Irish Reel - Banjo

This is an Irish Traditional Tune (A reel)...i intend to make a long version with guitars and bass in it also and try and Rock it up a bit lol ....

Enjoy

Dude, that was cool. Very nice sound. I really like the playing though. Got anymore???
Ed

 

[lurgan liar]

Cheers Dogman ...no i don't have any more recorded at the minute but i will 2nite ...i am gonna make a longer one with 2 reels and play guitar in it too ....

should be fun

 

[Passing Thru]

Sounds quite good. Be interesting to hear it with a bluegrass or alternative country backing instead of the track that is there now. I listested to Banjo Rumble at soundclick. You title it Irish-Reel banjo, so hopefully I listened to the right one.

 

[lurgan liar]

Sounds quite good. Be interesting to hear it with a bluegrass or alternative country backing instead of the track that is there now. I listested to Banjo Rumble at soundclick. You title it Irish-Reel banjo, so hopefully I listened to the right one.

No i think u listened to the wrong one ....Irish Reel - Banjo is up at the top (its a different song).... thats the one this thread is about ...thanks for listening

 

[Passing Thru]

Okay that is just messed up. I clicked on your site again and there it was at the top. Ain't Got You was at the top when I clicked on the site a couple times just 15 minutes ago or so when I first commented. Soundclick has been doing some really stupid things lately. Maybe they ran from a back up for a few minutes I see you uploaded that song last night. I know you can't upload pictures right now. Yesterday for a while everytime you tried to downlaod a song it would redirect you to sign in. Well I'd ask for my money back but it's free .

Anyways this Banjo sound is really up front and I bet it would sound cool with a banjo and a singer to use this micing if you were doing a simple one and one, or a couple of dueling banjo's. Be interesting again to hear how it sat in front of a full mix.

 

[XLR]

Excellent playing. You make those fast triplet repeated notes sound easy... but I bet they're not. It's a very rich tone. Because the level is so high on this I'm wondering how processed after-the-fact it is... is it heavily limited?... well anyway, I'm figuring the tone is mostly from the internal mic position... So my main idea is that, thinking back to the sound of your Rumble banjo solo, which I think used an external mic, I'd expect that a combination of the two would give a perfect blend of naturalness and the added-richness-through-creative-production that we're all trying for so much. Just a thought.

Tim

 

[Mark7]

How on earth do you wrap a solid metal object around a truss rod?

 

[v6v6v6]

Cool stuff with the banjo. BTW, are you playing guitar on the other tracks?

 

[lurgan liar]

How on earth do you wrap a solid metal object around a truss rod?

lol there is just enough room to put the mic inside the banjo and wrap it around the metal rod inside it ....i took the ball off the mic lol ....

Thanks for the feedback guys ....

It's a very rich tone. Because the level is so high on this I'm wondering how processed after-the-fact it is... is it heavily limited?...

Yes Tim ...I put a lot of compression on it ...I'm still relatively new to recording and mixing so I tend to experiment a lot ....I also rolled off the bass and pumped the high end a bit ....( i'm not sure if i explained that properly - in graphic EQ plug-in in Sound Forge i put the lower frequency faders down a bit and the middle ones up a bit and aso the higher frequencies up a bit as well???)

But yeah it sounded better after the EQ .... I never thought of using an external mic as well ...but i will the next time ...also i will record a guitar with the next one...Cheers guys

 

[lurgan liar]

Cool stuff with the banjo. BTW, are you playing guitar on the other tracks?

What Tracks? do you mean the other songs on soundclick ? yep

 

[Mark7]

lol there is just enough room to put the mic inside the banjo and wrap it around the metal rod inside it ....i took the ball off the mic lol ....

Nope. Still don't get it. I need photos.

 

[lurgan liar]

Nope. Still don't get it. I need photos.

its really easy to do it .... its a tenor banjo - 4 strings ....maybe you are thinking of a 5 string ...the inside of a 5 string might be different from a tenor banjo ....

 

[Mark7]

Nope. Still don't get it. How on earth do you get one of these

To coil around one of these?

That shaft isn't made of rubber. Is it?

 

[lurgan liar]

i don't have the mic with me at the minute but here is a pic of my banjo ...as you can see there is plenty of room to squeeze a mic around the rod

ok ok it is a bit of a tight fit but you can definetly do it ...i took the ball off....

Perhaps i am not explaining myself properly ....i don't literally wrap the mic around the truss rod i squeeze the mic under the rod a couple of time so that the mic cable is wrapped around the rod in order to make the mic sit stationary while i play ....i hope that makes more sense

 

[Mark7]

Ah! So it's the cable that's wrapped around the truss rod.

Now that makes sense

 

[lurgan liar]

Ah! So it's the cable that's wrapped around the truss rod.

Now that makes sense

Hahahaha i just realised how weird it would be if u could get a bendy mic made of rubber and wrapped it round the rod lol ...