{"id":14810,"date":"2014-01-28T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2014-01-28T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:13:53","slug":"mouthpiece-recording-test-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/mouthpiece-recording-test-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouthpiece Recording Test Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting lately with different recording distances and settings for my mouthpiece reviews.\u00a0 Usually, I record dry with no effects about 2 feet from the microphone. I&#8217;ve noticed that darker sounding mouthpieces can sound rich and beautiful in this setting but many times the brighter more powerful mouthpieces can sound harsh, shrill, edgy, thin or just generally unpleasant recorded this way&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/siteimages\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VNYIIBaffle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14812 aligncenter\" alt=\"VNYIIBaffle\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/siteimages\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VNYIIBaffle-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VNYIIBaffle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VNYIIBaffle-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VNYIIBaffle.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m a bit overly obsessive,\u00a0\u00a0 I set up this poll to see what you all think of the different distances from the mic as well as the effects used on the sounds.\u00a0 I have my own opinions but I thought it would be interesting to open it up to all of you to see what you think.\u00a0 If you want to add additional insights or thoughts, feel free to in the comment section below.\u00a0 Thanks for your help and input,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14810-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestDry.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestDry.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestDry.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Recording Test-Dry<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14810-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestCompression.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestCompression.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestCompression.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Recording Test-Compression<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14810-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestReverb.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestReverb.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/RecordingTestReverb.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Recording Test-Reverb<\/p>\n<p>[yop_poll id=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting lately with different recording distances and settings for my mouthpiece reviews.\u00a0 Usually, I record dry with no effects about 2 feet from the microphone. I&#8217;ve noticed that darker sounding mouthpieces can sound rich and beautiful in this setting but many times the brighter more powerful mouthpieces can sound harsh, shrill, edgy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1119,45],"tags":[1125,724,658,117,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-14810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-high-baffle-reviews","8":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","9":"tag-microphone","10":"tag-recording","11":"tag-review","12":"tag-sax-mouthpiece","13":"tag-tenor-saxophone","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}