| Hmm. Live jazz trios the only thing mic'ed is the bass? No. The piano is mic'ed too. I don't know anyone who doesn't mic the piano in a jazz trio format. I play with a piano player (jazz) every week and have done so for years. Never seen him NOT mic the piano.
BTW I'd agree that it's the drummmer fault if there's too much leakage. I tried to say that earlier. Even Chick Corea told me that he's had to work exceptionally hard to get his drummers to play with him acoustically without monitors. He made this move about 10 years ago. He said, "If you can't hear what I'm playing without the piano being monitored, you're playing too loud!" But that's a revolutionary decision from one of the absolute best pianists on the planet. And he has some of the best jazz drummers to be found any where. I'm not sure that lesser mortals would have any easier time of doing this. If each person has a monitor each wants their instrument louder and all dynamics in the music are lost.
The last thing one needs is an engineer who's a purist who f**ks up a recording because he has preconceived ideas of what must work/not work. I've beat myself up over this bass issue. Playing and recording jazz is pretty much all I do. I'd love to be able to use my mics. It sounds better IN THEORY to use a mic instead of a DI. But in practice without the DI there to help, the recordings would have been ruined. And as I said the TD-1 (Millennia) is really the only thing I've used that makes this work as an alternative. |