live remote Jazz recording with 2 E47 soundeluxe on drums and accoustic bass ..

[inlinenl]

I made last weekend a live recording of this jazz-group. Just preparing the mix right now and want to let you listen to a demo … I used a lot off advice from this part of gearslutz regarding the drums and the acoustic bass ….

I used two soundeluxe E47 on the drums in the recorderman setup.
Acoustic bass was not isolated .. so it picked up a lot of ambiance … but I put a schoeps in the bridge with elastic-bands and a U87 in front.
Drums also with a room-mike U149 – put it way back in the mix with compression and reverb.
Saxes with u87
And guitar was stereo with a Microtech Gefell 990 and a tlm103 throug a Avalon vt737sp. Guitar player used 2 amps Roland and a Mesa ( this got the MG990 ) and a lot of his own reverb.

I don’t mix a lot these day’s .. more mastering .. but any comment would be great .. I love the high-end of the E47 … it’s never .. never painful .. I feel that I can take it anywhere in the mix without sounding harsh.

All mic’s through a millennia pre-amp and into a apogee rossetta at 24/44.1 then for storage into a vs2480 and mixed in cubase sx …

http://84.244.1.104/jazz/Jazz.mp3

greetings and thanks for taken a listen.

Wim bult
www.inlinemastering.com

[inlinenl]

thank you ...

[ExistanceMusic]

Sound great, I really like the bass tone, very natural. Sax sounds awesome too, although a litle louder than I would prefer.

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[inlinenl]

Jesse,

thanks for listening ... mix was just a quick one ... tommorow they'll come over and we will start mixing .... I'll try to upload somemore after mix/mastering.

Did some preparing today ... but still those soundeluxe e47 sound awsome :-)

Greetings

Wim

[nbrecording]

Great recording!
Nice natural sound.
Which model of E47 did you use?

[ajfarber]

Originally Posted by inlinenl

I made last weekend a live recording of this jazz-group. Just preparing the mix right now and want to let you listen to a demo … I used a lot off advice from this part of gearslutz regarding the drums and the acoustic bass ….

I used two soundeluxe E47 on the drums in the recorderman setup.
Acoustic bass was not isolated .. so it picked up a lot of ambiance … but I put a schoeps in the bridge with elastic-bands and a U87 in front.
Drums also with a room-mike U149 – put it way back in the mix with compression and reverb.
Saxes with u87
And guitar was stereo with a Microtech Gefell 990 and a tlm103 throug a Avalon vt737sp. Guitar player used 2 amps Roland and a Mesa ( this got the MG990 ) and a lot of his own reverb.

I don’t mix a lot these day’s .. more mastering .. but any comment would be great .. I love the high-end of the E47 … it’s never .. never painful .. I feel that I can take it anywhere in the mix without sounding harsh.

All mic’s through a millennia pre-amp and into a apogee rossetta at 24/44.1 then for storage into a vs2480 and mixed in cubase sx …

http://84.244.1.104/jazz/Jazz.mp3

greetings and thanks for taken a listen.

Wim bult
www.inlinemastering.com

The sounds are good,but I think the mix needs tweeking. In my opinion, the bass is too up front and the saxophone is not up front enough. You could have used just the schoeps on the bass and been good. Also, it would have been nice to use one of the E47s on the saxophone. One E47 on the drums is fine if not preferable for a live jazz date. Simply pan the drums to 1 side and let the leakage give it dimention and depth.

Listen to some classic jazz that was recorded live. Cannonball Adderly, "Live At The Lighthouse" comes to mind.

These are just mix issues. You could mix this thing a dozen different ways and meke them work.

Also, a matter of personal taste. I happen to like the classic sound. Think Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia, Impulse etc... 1950s & 60s.