[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index][
Author Index]
electric percussion instruments
This is not OT, because looping asks for different instruments - but
we could still consider a separate list just about this?
Back to the feedback and building of electric percussion instruments:
I think its impossible to pick up a percussionist without any
microphones, because of some instruments like seeds with no spot to
install a pickup at all.
But those could all be plaid into one or two front microphones that
need to be pretty flat (because the worst is a colored feedback) and
at low gain. So such Instruments that are not loud enough stay at
home.
All bigger instruments should have pickups or built in close microphones.
For the building of the instruments I had a phantastic Idea with Giba
for a simple way to mount then into solid body instruments like
caron, clay pot, and hopefully drums.
But the smaller instruments like woodblock, triangle, marimba and
such would need an external amplifier. Some options:
- for each instrument a little box that can be mounted to the stand.
Each one could have an aux input, so all the instruments could be
chained in case there are not enough mixer channels available (you
easily reach 20, when picking up every instrument!).
- a central mixer. It would be nice also to convince some mixing desk
manufacturer to provide some piezo preamps instead of some of the
stereo channels. In the mean time we may find a simple way to modify
them.
I am not sure whether we should go for battery or phantom. Both seems
too much. Batteries are terrible
For phantom we need symetric lines
Symetry is great, but maybe not needed in most cases because the
percussionist does the mix for the looping and thus probably also the
main mix on stage.
The XLR is somewhat heavy for some instuments, so it could also be a
symetric 1/4" or even 1/8" phone jack
The boxes should have Pan and the Aux inputs should be stereo, which
ask for stereo phone jacks. I have never seen a phantom supply over a
stereo pair of wires, but it should be possible
I dont know who is going to build such a system and how many are
going to buy it.
I would like to participate on it, but time and space are limiting.
--
---> http://Matthias.Grob.org