Perhaps this is just a US perspective, because there is a definite shift in mic selection in the US to the UK (which of course is for the moment containing Scotland). The same mic setup sounded very artificial. BUT it didn't work on a different Yamaha, one of the smaller baby grand type instruments. So a happy accident - it worked rather nice. This wasn't really quite right for the genre of music - but the reflected sound seemed to be very similar to the more distant mic position I'd have used. However, the sound, reflected by the lid sounded really good - in this location, the room sound was quite poor, so closer miking than usual was needed. As this was on location, monitoring had been in the space, using DT100s for isolation, and I'd not noticed. We spent all day recording and only when packing away did I spot that she'd pointed them 180 around the wrong way - pointing up. My assistant set up a couple of large diaphragm condensers under the lid of a Yamaha C3 grand piano. I'd love to hear a little of the results at some point - sounds like it could be a worthwhile experiment. It's recorded in a very live cathedral, but the sound is amazing.
It's a bit different from what we're talking about here, but if you do Spotify, look up Paul Winter - Golden Apples of the Sun, and listen to the Ulean Pipes on that. It was him that made me realise they hear it differently to somebody further away. After getting lousily miked up at festivals, he has a tiny L bracket glued to each drone and the chanter, and has some cheap omni labs, that he then sub mixes (with a preset balance - he removed the rotary knobs, and covered the pot shafts with gaffer tape!) He also uses this setup on studio sessions - and he loves it, although to me it sounds a bit 'wrong'. It would be nice to record lots of options as a test and then listen to all the sound sources to see if you can creat the characteristic 'big' sound the damn things have.Ī friend of mine who is very into folk music has a set of pipes - not quite sure what they are, but they are smaller that the Scots version, and he plays his live.
I'm thinking it could be an ideal opportunity to try something a bit different - like maybe a Jeklin Disk? My reasoning is that some kind of stereo setup would be best for recording purposes, because of the wide spread location of the various parts of the instrument. If you have plenty of mics and channels available, I wonder if maybe the spaced omnis could be used either side, and maybe slightly above the player. "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." I'd love to hear from someone who has recorded pipes in the past. Of course I'd like to experiment all day, but my client and ears probably wouldn't appreciate that.Īny suggestions people have are appreciated. These mics might tone down some of the harshness of the pipes. As my ear isn't tuned to a 'good' bagpipe tone, I figure the flatness of these mics will at least give a natural sound.Ģ) M/S with an AKG 214 and a modded Apex 460 as the figure 8. I'm leaning towards a simple stereo pair a few feet behind the piper, and am considering the below options:ġ) A spaced pair of Avenson STO-2 omnis. Microphone technique: Close Micing seems pretty impractical to me as the SPLs are very high, and attempting to individually mic drones seems futile.
I've considered doing it outside, but don't want to rely on the weather. The band has a church sanctuary available to them, and I figure this will be a much better environment acoustically to record. I have a smaller basement studio that I have recently built and treated, but am not planning to record there. I haven't been able to find much on the topic of recording bagpipes, so I thought I'd share my plans for recording, and see if anyone has any advice to offer. They're going to use the recording mainly for practice purposes so I might be overthinking this, but I'd like to deliver something that sounds as good as possible (all joking about bagpipes aside). One of my first paid gigs will be an interesting one - a local bagpipe band has asked me to record a solo piper. I came to it via recording the band I play in in my basement, as a lot of people have. I'm new to the forum, and relatively new to the recording side of music.
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