Re: looping with a mic

[Greg House <ghunicycle@yahoo.com>]

--- Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org> wrote:
> >--- Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org> wrote:
> >
> >>  Its the biggest problem I have when playing with Giba: Even without
> >>  monitors, my guitar leaks a little into his mikes, so when I stop my
> >>  loop to build a new one onto his ongoing percussion groove, it still
> >>  goes on in his loop and I am not really free to do something totally
> >>  different.
> >>  When will I have time to care for "electric percussion" 
>instruments...?
> >
> >Perhaps this could be resolved by adding piezo or ribbon type 
> >transducers to his
> >percussion items instead of using mics?
> 
> yes, thats what I am dreaming of for a while. We have been talking 
> about it before, here. It works with solid instruments, but I dont 
> have a method to pick up skins yet. Maybe very close miking would be 
> sufficient? Its amazing what Marcus Suzano and others do with the 
> Pandeiro, with a inserted tiny mic!

Luthiers have been using internal condenser mics in guitars for several 
years.
Many people believe these sound better then under-the-saddle piezos. I'd 
bet the
same type mic could be used inside other instruments as well.

The ribbon transducers might also work, since they don't depend on 
pressure to
pick up the sound.

Greg

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