Video of Marimba recording in studio

[Clueless]

Here's a video of Ivana Bilic recording "Wild Rose" at Manifold Recording. It's in HD on YouTube:



Microphones are DPA 3521 (stereo pair), DPA 4011 (bass end and treble end), Royer SF-12 (visible in overhead shots), and others.

[joeq]

beautiful!

great performance
great recording

[El Nino]

Sounds amazing!

[LeMauce]

I had and will have always a special "something deeply respectful" for Marimba players... I don't know why...

So nice performance and sound control!

PS: Is that the room sound? No reverb added to the mix?

[Osis]

A couple of weeks ago I played marimba on a session and I'm pretty sure we used a wunder CM7 in cardioid overhead. Because of the frequency range and the harmonics generated by the instrument it can be very hard to fit into a mix if recorded as aptly as this video above, that really does sound outstanding though.

[Clueless]

Originally Posted by LeMauce

I had and will have always a special "something deeply respectful" for Marimba players... I don't know why...

So nice performance and sound control!

PS: Is that the room sound? No reverb added to the mix?

You have good ears! We extended the 1s RT60 of the room to about 1.2s using an M6000.

[LeMauce]

Originally Posted by Clueless

You have good ears! We extended the 1s RT60 of the room to about 1.2s using an M6000.

Thank you . 27years old and always take care about my hearing. BTW it's also the K&H 0300 at home that help.

You have to hit hard a marimba in a big room like that to great "natural room" reverb like that no?

[Clueless]

Originally Posted by LeMauce

Thank you . 27years old and always take care about my hearing. BTW it's also the K&H 0300 at home that help.

You have to hit hard a marimba in a big room like that to great "natural room" reverb like that no?

You do have to play it, yes. But the room has a wonderful 1sec RT60, and it really does sound great by itself. And full. And while big, it's not so big that you have to distort the Marimba to get the room to sing. (Indeed, appropriate scale for a solo instrument was a design criteria for the room.)

Had the artist played the piece at full speed, we would have not extended the reverb tail at all, because it would have got in the way of the articulation. Don't want fast stuff sounding muddy! We only extended the reverb, and only by a very small amount, because that's what the performance called for.