Members Tomm Williams Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 If any of you have any experience micing Brass and Woodwinds in a live setting, would you care to share your thoughts on the best mics to perform the function.TW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted December 23, 2009 Members Share Posted December 23, 2009 There are many variables in your question. What's the live setting? Club? Concert stage? What is the group? Big band? Jazz combo? Rock (funk, R&B) band horn section? Instruments? Trumpets? Sax? Flute? Three common mics for brass: Sennheiser 421 Sennheiser 441, especially on saxes: AKG C414 But the all time, one size fits "most" mic for brass (and a world of other applications) is the Shure SM57. Cheap. Indestructible. Use it on a gig, then take it home and use it to hammer nails in the wall for hanging pictures. An engineer friend swears by Audix mics for live brass. IIRC, it's the D3 that he recommended for trumpet. If your horns need to move around on stage, you'll want a clip on mic. I don't have any experience with those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 23, 2009 Members Share Posted December 23, 2009 I've used the SM57 with good results. Granted, the SM57 doesn't really do anything great, it just does everything right as Mark alluded to. You can mic a bass cab, a singer, and a trumpet with it and it'll work for each one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hrnlip Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 But the all time, one size fits "most" mic for brass (and a world of other applications) is the Shure SM57. Cheap. Indestructible. Use it on a gig, then take it home and use it to hammer nails in the wall for hanging pictures. And the Beta57 does it just that much better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted January 7, 2010 Members Share Posted January 7, 2010 +1000 on the Sennheiser 421. They take high sound levels, are built like tanks, have no proximity effect to speak of, and they sound great. Do an a/b test with a sure Beta and you will hear the difference. Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted January 7, 2010 Members Share Posted January 7, 2010 Yup, I also use a 421 on my tenor. Great mic and worth the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hrnlip Posted January 8, 2010 Members Share Posted January 8, 2010 Use the 421 for recording, critical listening in a concert setting and with a "killer"pa?...absolutely! But for the generic bar/lounge/club/wedding gig?...never! JMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted January 8, 2010 Members Share Posted January 8, 2010 Use the 421 for recording, critical listening in a concert setting and with a "killer"pa?...absolutely! But for the generic bar/lounge/club/wedding gig?...never! JMO Why not? (I'm serious, I'd like to know) I've been using one for years. It has outlasted 3 vocal mics that my partner uses (one Sure, and two ATs), and sounds so much better that she now sings through one. It's so rugged that some studios use it to mic drums, and the occasional inadvertent use of the mic as a percussion device doesn't seem to kill it. I had been using a Beta 58 for a while and when recording on my old Teac tape machine, the sax sounded stuffy. So I went to my local music store and the owner suggested the 421. He went to the recording studio in the rear and loaned me one. He said to try it on the gig and on the tape machine and if I liked it he would order one for me. We had a regular Sunday afternoon gig at a yacht basin. We played upstairs in a small lounge with all the windows open. A musician friend of mine came up the stairs and said, "What did you do to your sax, it sounds great! I could hear the difference in the parking lot!" The next day I had the music store order one for me and I've never had a mic problem since. To me it's the ultimate stage mic for sax. Insights and incites by Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted January 13, 2010 Members Share Posted January 13, 2010 sm57 beta52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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