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Old 29th May 2006   #5
JazzYoda
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Originally Posted by Midlandmorgan
Sounds very nice...simpled down version of Take the A Train...

As far as guessing what was where, I really don't like these sorts of things....just tell us what you used and how you used it....there are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many variables, so many techniques that call all provide superlative sound, so we could be playing guessing games for 5 pages before someone stumbled onto it.
Ok fair enough. My mistake thinking that guessing games might be fun. (I would have had fun :P)

Before I had the ill-concieved brainteaser idea this was going to be called "How to Record a Jazz Trio with only 3 microphones".

I used a Lawson L47 on the piano, about a foot or so above the mid treble holes, Lawson L47 on the drums, facing him and AKG D12 on the bass, pointed at a spot just below the bridge.

The band was set up in a sort of semi-circle in a large room, Kaufmann Astoria Studio.

No signal processing or reverb was used, at all. The mics were run through an Ampex MX-35 straight to final tape: Ampex 351 1/2" at 30 ips. None of the studio electronics at KAS were used except as a monitor controller to listen to the music through the B&W 801s.
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