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It sounded good. And, disregard what I said about ribbon mics. I'm going to tell all the studios that have used them on me that they were wrong.



Hey Matt,

I didn't say that you could not use a ribbon mic on a Trumpet.

What I said was that a Trumpet can indeed generate enough Sound Pressure Level to SHRED one, or at least risk damaging the ribbon.

But this also must depend upon the particular player and more importantly, the STYLE of their playing at the time of recording. A lot of Latin style Trumpet, and especially Flugelhorn, isn't likely to be the same kind of playing that a Section might have to belt in a bigband or the likes.

But you know that.

The advice was given to someone recording at home with their own limited amount of equipment available and regards the purchase of - or not - a new microphone, one microphone. At that point, we shouldn't be looking at specialty tool as much as a tool that is *easy to get good results, *doesn't pick up much of the room, which is very likely not going to be studio acoustics, *covers a wide dynamic range such that any type of music style could be conceiveably recorded with the least amount of technical setup and provision to the user, that sort of thing was where I was headed.

At a well-equipped studio, if charged with the Tracking Engineering, I might go to the well-equipped mic cabinet and select a Ribbon mic for you as well, after auditioning what was to be recorded. Or maybe not. A lot depends upon other factors as well, such as what type of mic each particular engineer favors, what type of preamp they intend to use, sometimes it grinds down to what they feel most comfortable with using.

Bear in mind that in the studio there is typically another person involved at least, that
Tracking Engineer can manually "ride the gain" if need be to prevent overdriving inputs or other possible means of distortions that can occur while the recording is being done. A person playing by themseles in the home studio is likely better off concentrating on the playing and using a mic/preamp combination that is pretty much "set and forget" in order to git-r-done.


--Mac

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