is there any um valent player uh from
Indiana with a dry sense of humor in the
room yes yeah come on
over the incredible Clayton
Matthews step into your
office okay so the violin is a very
difficult
instrument because it was designed a few
hundred years ago before all the
technology gave us things like you know
Pro Tools and stuff and so it's an
instrument that that requires that's
very hard to record unfortunately ribbon
microphones are just perfect for that
would you be kind enough to play us
something interesting potentially
something from the song sure thank
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you
so if you look at at the the mic
placement the idea here is to be close
enough to get the presence because we
like to be inside the recording right
but far away enough that you don't get
that thing that happens when you record
violin most of the time the beauty of
having a ribbon microphone like this is
that um the ribbon smooth out all that
all those Peaks very very well so say
you going to record those parts again
play those parts again well oh did you
record this just the end so Swift and
let's do it again I want to hear the the
verse part here we
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go is that fantastic there's no
recording
right and and that is let me show you
it's a 121 through the 262
preamp now you heard that ribbon
especially the 121 which is not phantom
power need a lot of gain right ribbons
need more gain to be able to get to it
so probably your instinct would be to
not use a two preamp because you may get
more noise if you put a lot of gain can
you play that again
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mhm the answer is do not make
assumptions right so listen to the stuff
a ribbon through a 21610 on a violin is
heaven it just sounds good you don't
have to fight it it's great this 121
sounds particularly good on this great I
would like to bring to the stage
potentially an upright player with any
kind of sense of humor it's
okay all
right
Jeremy ight is a very difficult
instrument to record really really
difficult instrument to record because
because it was designed at about the
same time as they designed that thing
over there the violin it's actually one
hell of a big violin and
so so big that it just no longer use the
bow anymore just go plink plink plink Um
so what we're going to do is is um the
the common sense is to put the
microphone in front of the F holes and
and make sure that it sounds okay so
let's try
um wherever you want really May it's
your show
that sounds like it that looks like it
could be good and our our what we're
going through right now is uh the other
side because we remember at the
beginning we know from experience from
our studio that the 610 sounds really
really great on base so we're going to
put that on the base right now and
listen to how it sounds can you play the
part for the verse as soon as Mar is
ready for you I'm going I'm on she's
ready go
ahead
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right it's not that hard now if you put
the microphone this far away from the
base what's going to happen it's going
to go like this boom
boom
boom boom pick your note what n of the
notes is going to stick out because your
microphone will be exactly at the
resonance level of the base well if we
try something let's try something else
just for cakes but Mark this one down
because it sounded pretty
rad it's a technical
term you want further or closer yeah
further I want to see how it
sounds okay did you see that can you can
you do a replay on
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that the microphone was
here could you please try a different
placement
yes that makes a difference okay so we
are talking about simple things there's
no it's not a black magic or anything
it's just like put the microphone
there assess try something else and most
of the time put it back where it was all
right
let's go ahead same thing
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please
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let listen to that and we compare the
two of them so we move the microphone
this much not going to change the course
of modern
music let's see what it
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does okay first one
here hear the resonance on that note
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okay that's fat can I hear the new one
again worse
resonance yeah this that that top note
is unpleasant all right so um let's just
switch it back to where it was um but
you know you might find something
different you know we we did some
experiment where you you have a drum set
I did some experiment I'm shooting some
videos by the way if you like the way
the what you're learning here I have a
website where you can learn that kind of
stuff I'll tell you at the end but we
did a video where we put a drum set we
mic drum set with one microphone right
and then we took a goo what a big just a
big piece of wood and moved it two feet
to the right of the drum set we didn't
put it in between the microphone and the
drum set just took the Gobo put it in
the room 2 feet to the right of the drum
set it changed the na
sound it makes you want to go plant
potatoes in Idaho for a living you know
what I
mean I picked Idaho out of
nowhere um okay so we have all that
stuff so oh my God we have a band so
what I like to do now is I'd like to
record everything together but just the
first verse we'll record a pass of the
song in in a minute because I want to
play everybody to bleed from microphone
to microphone because you're told that
we must isolate everything everything
must be perfectly
isolated in Little Boxes otherwise you
cannot make a record that is not true so
go
ahead
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I'm solid
steel and scolding stee I'm a cog in the
machine
I'm sick and tired of the same routine
and I'm
sinking like a
submarine stopping cool isn't it nice to
hear the song Come Together yeah you
were wondering
right so let's just play that and listen
to the um to the room
mic