I'll bet you get a lot of feedback on this topic, but it sounds to me like microphone placement could be responsible for the trompette being so overly dominant in the mix.
George Leverett http://altarwind.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Minstrel Geoffrey To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [HG] Available from Smithsonian Folkways records: Henry Vasson I have noticed, that album, the dog or chen is predominant in the recording. Is this the nature of the instrument of that type? Did they mic it incorrectly, but I thought the chen is an accompaniment, not a predominant sound of the instrument. Thoughts? Comments? On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Matthew Bullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I was searching the Smithsonian Folkways web site for something totally different, and noticed that they had a pull-down box titled instrument. I pulled it down to hurdy gurdy, and this album came up: http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=1502 The album is simply called Hurdy Gurdy music, and was recorded in 1976. It contains twenty French pieces, and you either have Smithsonian send you a cd, or you can get it the modern way and download it. They give you two formats, mp3 and flac. Flac is lossless, and is only needed if you want to burn a perfect-sounding cd with no mp3 sound loss. The mp3s will do fine if you want them for an mp3 player though. The pieces seem to be mostly in the key of C, or at least they were with the samples I picked to listen to. Anyhow, I thought this might be a cd you'd not heard before, and figured you'd want to check it out and add it to your collection if you like it. Thanks a lot. Matthew
