After recording for some twenty five years with all kind of bands, orchestras, choirs and whatever, I finally had to record a kind of ancient music band with bagpipes.
The band has two guitarists (acoustic), an upright bass, violin, an instrument what we call 'hakkebord' in Holland which is a gipsy kind of forerunner of the piano and the bagpipes which were played by a woman who also played a number of whistles.
My dear friends, ever been trying to record bagpipes next to a violin? Bagpipes are loud and I mean LOUD !
Lucky enough the trackingroom is quite big, so I put the bagpipes at some distance from the violin and upright and recorded it with a DIN pair of Beyer M260's and a LDC on the backside where the lows come from the longest pipe.
The sound is gorgeous which I'm very happy with.
Ribbons guys, ribbons is all you need for difficult instruments like bagpipes, thin whistles, violin etc.
The band has two guitarists (acoustic), an upright bass, violin, an instrument what we call 'hakkebord' in Holland which is a gipsy kind of forerunner of the piano and the bagpipes which were played by a woman who also played a number of whistles.
My dear friends, ever been trying to record bagpipes next to a violin? Bagpipes are loud and I mean LOUD !
Lucky enough the trackingroom is quite big, so I put the bagpipes at some distance from the violin and upright and recorded it with a DIN pair of Beyer M260's and a LDC on the backside where the lows come from the longest pipe.
The sound is gorgeous which I'm very happy with.
Ribbons guys, ribbons is all you need for difficult instruments like bagpipes, thin whistles, violin etc.
Just somebody nearby.
)......but my god, in the hands of an incompentent......i'd rather scratch out my ears with icepicks. 