a jazz session

[lowswing]

I usealy ask questions so i thought it would be nice to share what i learnd today
i had a free jazz session with drumer , vibes and bass clarinet .with the last two instruments i didn't have so much expirience and didn't find any info on this forum (this's why I post now)
I found out that the vibes sounds great in the "live" room i used two beyers m160 ribbons 60cm above the keys looking down and space like dividing the vibes in 3rds, going into telefunken v676 pres (i needed over 60db aplification for one ballad piece!!!), the thing sounded very clean and natural exactly as if you were in the room (as long u don't pan it hard left-right).
for the bass clarinet i needed to "build" a small dead room out of self-made moving walls, miced it with a c12 in fig8 30cm a way from the player 10cm higher than the bell off-axis went into v72 (that sturated nicely in the loud "screamy " parts) and i had adl1000 tube compressor controling the louder 2-4db picks, it sounded very warm and full, and matched the "dirty" wild sound of the player.
hope this info can help anyone.
cheers
guy

[wolfhound]

do you mind if I ask who the bass clarinet player was?

I have a good friend in berlin who is an awesome "free" jazz bass clar/alto sax player....probably not the samem but sometimes it's a small world

[lowswing]

the basscalrinetist was a guy called andreas.
another top bclarinetist i recorded is rudi mahal, one of the best in his kind world-wide imho.

[wolfhound]

My friend's name is Silke Eberhard....a really fantastic young player....

[Tousana]

Originally posted by lowswing
I usealy ask questions so i thought it would be nice to share what i learnd today
i had a free jazz session with drumer , vibes and bass clarinet .with the last two instruments i didn't have so much expirience and didn't find any info on this forum (this's why I post now)
I found out that the vibes sounds great in the "live" room i used two beyers m160 ribbons 60cm above the keys looking down and space like dividing the vibes in 3rds, going into telefunken v676 pres (i needed over 60db aplification for one ballad piece!!!), the thing sounded very clean and natural exactly as if you were in the room (as long u don't pan it hard left-right).
for the bass clarinet i needed to "build" a small dead room out of self-made moving walls, miced it with a c12 in fig8 30cm a way from the player 10cm higher than the bell off-axis went into v72 (that sturated nicely in the loud "screamy " parts) and i had adl1000 tube compressor controling the louder 2-4db picks, it sounded very warm and full, and matched the "dirty" wild sound of the player.
hope this info can help anyone.
cheers
guy

Sounds Like you had it covered. Because we all know there aren't any hard fast rules to recording,it's nice to be able to experiment a little bit and find out new stuff. Thanks for sharing.