OT: c1000s (was RE: electric percussion instruments)

["Michael LaMeyer" <m.lameyer@verizon.net>]

For the Boston Loopfest we used two c1000's to record the room.  I actually
picked them up new last month at Guitar Center in Boston for $200 each, it
looked like the going price at the time, fyi. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL [mailto:GLOBAL@cruzio.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 5:41 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: electric percussion instruments
>
>
> I have given this subject considerable thought and tried lots and lots
>  of diffenent approaches.
>
> what I have come to is to use a condenser microphone with an
> incredibly
> narrow cartoid pattern (as found in the AKG C1000S for
> example) for all
> instruments that are smaller (triangles, small shakers and
> any sounds that I
> call micro-phonic-------------much quieter than normal).
>
> with my loopers I then make my loop be entirely wet so that
> there is no
> feedback
> potential with monitoring.
>
> You can then use mutes on something like a Mackie mixer and then use
> headphones
> to monitor the initial sound.
>
> I prefer open ear headphones with this approach (and ,
> believe it or not,
> Radio Shack
> makes an excellent $40 open ear, collapseable full frequency
> headphone that
> they frequently sell on sale for $20) so that you can hear
> other musicians
> playing or your monitor speakers.
>
> Ideally, of course, one should have in ear monitors for such
> an approach
> (but I still have never invested in them because they are so
> expensive and
> you have to have
> a very dependable feedback eliminating devices so that there
> is never a
> chance of feedback-------------one of Santa Cruz's most
> talented trumpet
> players had his brillian live career cut short by having his
> ears destroyed
> in a feedback incident
> and it just isn't worth the risk).
>
> I always used Beta 58s or Beta 57s on stage before I heard a
> pair of the AKG
> C1000s at a folk club in Berkeley touring with Martin
> Simpson.  They blew me
> away because the fidelity was so much greater than the Shure
> Betas and yet I
> could use very high monitored volumes (wonderful when one is playing a
> Liquid Glass Ghatam as I was on one song in that show).
>
> Wonderfully, one can purchase a pair of these great mics for
> $300 at most
> big music stores:  and you can always take this price to your
> local music
> store and give them the option of matching the price in an
> effort to buy
> local and keep your money in your own
> hometown.............this is my little
> strategy for keeping money local but still being able to
> afford equipment
> because it is priced reasonably.
>
> Well,
>
>