I recently recorded a CD with Christmas music in a studio in Hungary and I can tell you they get the sound of the theorbo as beautiful as possible. I really don't know what kind of microphone they used but it was a huge one about 40 cm from the soundboard and a smaller one about 20 cm from the fretboard. In that way the sound was very natural and the CD listened on a HI-FI stuff it's like a real live one... I think it's also a matter of preamps (they were using some tube preamps and amps...). Shure, AKG and Sennheiser are among the best what you can find on "normal" prices. Shure is my favorite. --- On Tue, 4/3/12, Brad Walton <gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> From: Brad Walton <gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> > Subject: [LUTE] miking a lute/theorbo > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:05 PM > Hello folks, > > > On the weekend I recorded two pieces in a professional > recording studio. I was accompanying a singer on the > theorbo. The recording engineer aimed two mikes quite > close to the body of the theorbo. > > > On the recording, the sound of the theorbo is very tinny and > distorted, and bears almost no similarity to the natural/ > acoustic sound of the instrument. > > > Has anybody had experience with miking a lute or theorbo for > recording? What mike placement gave you the best > results so far as concerned fidelity to the natural sound of > the instrument? > > > Thanks, > > > Brad > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
