My experience with the Jecklin Disk is that you can get better results by applying a foam ball to each mic separately. But experiment with the Disk, you may like it. Any kind of baffle to my ear adds an unpleasant color, and that includes the shockmount.
To get better highs, you need a better capsule.I myself never use direct or 45 degrees, I start at 15 degrees. direct is too beamy, 45 too much wall. Some engineers do use 45 degrees, however. From a technical point of view, the angle reduces the highs proportionally, so changing the angle is simpler than changing the mike or adding disks, etc. Did you try angling the mikes in when spaced fairly far apart wth foam behind them? Six more mic setups that are very good for lute in addition to NOS and ORTF and spaced omnis Old style omni: point them straight up, fairly close (start at two feet, experiment). eq if necessary. The so-called Faulkner array, two figure of eights exactly parallel, or slightly off axis a foot or so apart (good for narrow rooms) The Tayler array (sorry) Two omnis and two hypercardiods in a trapezoidal formation, with the omnis nearest and widest, (rocks for harpsichord, btw) The Decca tree, a triangle of three mics A faux Decca: an omni between an ortf pair (very warm sounding) MS recording with waves software decoder--allows you to resize the stereo field in software. All these will allow you to tweak the highs. The foam balls (no jokes, plz) will give you more highs, depending.... They can be purchased from Schoeps, or you can make your own. Some people use "nerf" whatever that is (kids game?) Nerf is the cheapest. You can also use small disks on each mic, like a collar. Sennheiser sells these or you can make your own. The sennheiser give a very slight emphasis to the treble. A time saver: Using isolation headphones, have someone play the lute and move the mic in curves till you get exactly what you want. Then repeat for the other side. This works great with the Fostex FR2 LE in mono mode, so you get signal on both channels. If the top string of the lute sounds edgy or plasticky, that is the capsule, alas, but placement can mitigate that sound. The last set sounded good, not so boomy. dt At 05:54 AM 8/13/2007, you wrote: >I am looking for better high and perhaps a little less boomy bass. I want to >keep my natural reverb but I don't want the mics too far away as I like to >feel the strings in a recording. So I was ready to be baffled and spend >yesterday afternoon in constructing a Jecklin Disc. It looks like another >alien, but stayed within budget as it's made of bits of scrap aluminum and >insulating material I still had lying around. >I was going to make a set of different experiments with it, so I wanted a >short and easy piece with enough high register. The Cobbler, I think I first >met him in one of the Noad books in my guitar days as a kid. > >http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/david/homerecordings_f.html > >Tell me what you think. > >David > >**************************** >David van Ooijen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.davidvanooijen.nl >**************************** > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
