Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob: Like the photo but that damn mike looks like a character out of a Disney space travel movie. :-) Walt bob palmieri wrote: > Y'all - > > So I was in New York again playing guitar on a recording and I swore I > wasn't gonna snap on the session (music too complicated, requiring > what mental powers I can still access to deal with all the Little > Black Dots.) > > However, when my parts were done the artist asked if I would come in > the next day to help with the recording of the saxophone parts. Long > story short, none of the mics were sounding good so I leaned on the > engineer to dig around for anything we hadn't tried. He found this > old Neumann (an M7, I believe, maybe from the '30's or 40's) which > turned out to be the clear winner. The sax player thought that the > mic was such a significant part of the sound that he wanted a shot > taken with it for the CD (Canon 20D w/50mm 1.8 Canon): > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/sterman_CD_SNAP_HC_small > > This version seems to over-emphasize the mic, but the art director and > the artist like it, so it will be... I do like the rendering quality > in general. > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >