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Old 14th February 2005   #6
Jon Kubis
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Most people tend to lean toward a single stereo pair for the brass... yick! Maybe for the old-school big band sound, but pretty much all contemporary big band albums nowadays use close mics alongside a stereo pair for brass.

Last couple sessions at Capitol I've seen
2 RCA 44 ribbons split between the 4 trumpets
4 RCA 44 ribbons, one on each bone
5 U67's, one on each sax.

Also had really good luck with 2 R121s on the trumpets
4 RE-20s on bones
and whatever nice LDCs you have for saxes.

The worst bleed problems I've had were horns/drums into the piano, and horns into drums.

Sorry for the quick response... gotta run
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