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Long long time ago but I remember having a nightmare time with a bassoon once. Not in a typical classical recording where it sits between the rest of the woodwinds and you record the whole group / orchestra in a concert hall at once but as a solo instrument on a Jazz recording.
The bassoon was the solo / lead and had to be recorded in a rather dry studio room.
It was the combination of both the player and the instrument that made it dufficult. With a bassoon the sound comes from 3 different places .... some notes sound at the top, others in the middle at the mouth piece and some more towards the bottom.
Listen back to it still gives me an uncomfortable feeling. Both inexperience , lack of confidence in those days made it even worse .....
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Chris Lambrechts
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