Gearslutz.com - View Single Post - Pipe organ recording, any ideas?
View Single Post
Old 16th April 2008   #9
Shadow_7
Banned
 
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 595

If the flute player and organ are happening at the same time, you might need to mic the flute. Or tap into whatever mic setup is being used by the flute player. Flutes just don't have the same dynamic capabilities of a large organ.

For the organ, room mics should suffice. Unless you plan on micing each pipe individually. As visions of a 1,000 mics, mic stands that stretch all the way to the ceiling, and cables dominating the venue comes to mind. A regular scene from star trek. Or some roswell spoof. Bear in mind that each key triggers several pipes for the notes they generate. With some selectability as to which pipes get activated at the keyboard. And there's more than one keyboard on most of them. You probably want to stick with room mics. Although there are smaller versions that you could mic the speaker cab of like you would a guitar. But I've never seen any of those outside of a practice room or house.
Shadow_7 is offline  
Reply With Quote