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I just did a recording session with Richard @ Glasswing, I hope to have some samples up for all of you to peruse shortly. I've done the mic down the bell thing, but I thought we got a great sound with a big condenser about 3 ft from the bell. I'm on a sousaphone too, so that might impact the success of the "down the bell" technique, since mine is kinked. You're stuff is amazing, these are GREAT recordings! Fun stuff for all of us tuba folks. Have you guys heard the YoungBloodBrassBand tuba player Nate McCavish? The guy is a complete chainsaw of bass. Marvelous! On 5/15/07, burnett@pobox.com <burnett@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007, Per Boysen wrote: > > > On 15 maj 2007, at 02.33, burnett@pobox.com wrote: > >> The Face of the Waters - 16min34sec > >> http://www.subscapeannex.com/tuba/the_face_of_the_waters.mp3 > >> Walking With Belgrand - An evening stroll underground with the >architect of > >> the epic Parisian sewer system. - 19min19sec > >> http://www.subscapeannex.com/tuba/walking_with_belgrand.mp3 > >> Circus of the Rat Catchers - 10min55sec > >> http://www.subscapeannex.com/tuba/circus_of_the_rat_catchers.mp3 > >> > >> All tracks recorded live, all source audio live-sampled tuba, no > >> post-processing or layering other than cleaning noise using SoundSoap. > > > > Fantastic! How did you catch that sound? Would you mind give out a >little > > more information, please? Mic placement? Harmonizer? Filter? > > Per: > > I asked my partner David about the mic he uses, the following is his > response: > > #################### > I bought a Shure Beta 57A mic when I started playing with Hubcap's > Dilemma. And I bought another one when I started playing with you. > They are very rugged like their legendary brethren the Shure > SM57.......and I like the way the tuba sounds through them...even > when the mic is way down the bell. They do a great job with acoustic > guitar also...very warm and non-stingy. > #################### > > The mic is dropped down the bell of the tuba and is at least a foot and a > half down the mouth of the bell of the tuba. > > The mic feeds into my long signal chain of loop and effects pedals, > then the output of the signal chain goes to a mixer. One output from the > mixer to the amp, the second output to a Gemini iKey. Record as wav file, > clean hiss and background noise in Sound Soap, then import to iTunes and > convert from wav to mp3. > > Processing on these sessions: > > For Sunday's sessions, I used most of the loop pedals at one point or > another for layering, either as the "clean" unprocessed tuba signal, or > to loop a processed tuba bit so David could then solo live over that. > Rarely I will loop with the same effects and settings, and I almost >always > differentiate David's solos as either clean, or processed differently >from > the active loops. > > Effects used Sunday: Moog lowpass filter, ring mod, (non-super) analog > delay, mostly. Used the E-H POG a little on the second track "Walking >With > Belgrand". > > (Signal chain: > I have two loop pedals (Akai Headrush E2, Z-Vex Lo-Fi Loop Junky) at the > top of the signal chain. They are followed by the set of Z-Vex pedals > (Woolly Mammoth, Seek Wah, Ooh Wah, Ringtone, Seek Trem), then another > loop pedal (Line 6 DL4) precedes the Moog Moogerfooger set (lowpass > filter, ring mod, phaser, MuRF, bass MuRF, analog delay, super analog > delay), followed by an E-H Polyphonic Octave Generator. The end of the > signal chain is a set of four loop pedals (E-H 16sec delay - the reissue, > not original), Boss RC-20, Boss RC-20XL, Digitech Jamman). ) > > I hope this helps answer your questions. > > best, > Steve B > Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/ > Ouroboros http://www.subscapeannex.com/ouroboros/ > > -- ---Miles Ward