Re: Noob saxist feedback question

["Jim Palmer" <jimp@pobox.com>]

i'm not much of a saxist, but i play one on tv.
remember most of the sax sound comes out the keyholes.
if you are already getting the sound you want from your bell mic,
you are lucky.  i find that i can't.  surprisingly it winds up way too 
bright
(i expected a darker sound)

anyway, there are a few pickups that attach to the mouthpiece that 
supposedly
can get better rejection plus a more natural tone than a mic in the bell.  
i've tried this approach on trumpet and like it pretty well.  
one thing extra rejection allows is the use of guitar amps/effects
to get otherwoldly sounds (distorto-wah-echo etc) these things can cause
quite a mess of feedback with a microphone on a club stage, 
not that there's anything wrong with that, 
if that's your taste, times being what they are...

...
> When looping live with other players, is there any way to 
> diminish/control the amount of extraneous noise from other 
> instruments and monitors onstage building up in my loops? 
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