recording bells..

Baderup99 · 29th October 2007, 12:15 AM

Hey my friend actually has a set of xylophone keys that he hangs from strings and hits with a little rubber mallet. He would hit the two bars back and forth really fast and he would get this really cool almost atmospheric type of sound, it sounds really cool when I drench it in reverb.

My trouble is that I do get quite a lot of the sound of the mallet hitting

the bars, is the only real way to deal with this is to try to eq it out?

malaclypse · 29th October 2007, 12:25 AM

maybe you could smooth it out with compression by taking out the attack. or try different mic placement? maybe a ribbon mic?

ssaudio · 29th October 2007, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Baderup99

My trouble is that I do get quite a lot of the sound of the mallet hitting

the bars, is the only real way to deal with this is to try to eq it out?

assuming that what you hear is not what you manage to record, maybe you should supply some details as to how you are actually engineering this?

Clueless · 29th October 2007, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baderup99

Hey my friend actually has a set of xylophone keys that he hangs from strings and hits with a little rubber mallet. He would hit the two bars back and forth really fast and he would get this really cool almost atmospheric type of sound, it sounds really cool when I drench it in reverb.

My trouble is that I do get quite a lot of the sound of the mallet hitting

the bars, is the only real way to deal with this is to try to eq it out?

I've recorded handbells a lot, and what works for me is Royer R-121 mics and SPL Transient Designer (I have the TD-4). That thing is amazing!

Baderup99 · 29th October 2007, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ssaudio

assuming that what you hear is not what you manage to record, maybe you should supply some details as to how you are actually engineering this?

No, what i recorded was exactly what i wanted. The sound of the bars was great, I just thought that it was probably inevitable that I was going to get the sound of the hammer hitting the bars, and didn't know of any possible tricks or anything I could do in post to minimize it.

ssaudio · 29th October 2007, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baderup99

No, what i recorded was exactly what i wanted. The sound of the bars was great, I just thought that it was probably inevitable that I was going to get the sound of the hammer hitting the bars, and didn't know of any possible tricks or anything I could do in post to minimize it.

I see :)

without hearing it, it's impossible to say more...

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Baderup99 Gear addict Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Akron, Ohio Posts: 499	recording bells.. Hey my friend actually has a set of xylophone keys that he hangs from strings and hits with a little rubber mallet. He would hit the two bars back and forth really fast and he would get this really cool almost atmospheric type of sound, it sounds really cool when I drench it in reverb. My trouble is that I do get quite a lot of the sound of the mallet hitting the bars, is the only real way to deal with this is to try to eq it out?

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29th October 2007, 12:25 AM	#2
malaclypse Gear addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: Austin Posts: 307	maybe you could smooth it out with compression by taking out the attack. or try different mic placement? maybe a ribbon mic?