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Reid
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Posted: 2005-10-03 03:56 CEST | |
| Hey, my band is going to start recording/playing shows soon, I was just wondering what some good mic's were for the various horn instruments (trumpet/trombone/sax). Any help would be appreciated, as I know nothing about this sorta thing. Thanks | ||
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skeevysteevies
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Posted: 2005-10-03 05:00 CEST | |
| Im kinda in the same boat where as i dont know much about mics but Im pretty sure that the SM-57 by Shure is a good mic. | ||
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idon'tknow
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Posted: 2005-10-03 08:35 CEST | |
| yeah, sm57 mics are very good but they are pretty darn expensive. And depending on how big the brass section is is could be very expensive. My band uses them for recording and they sound pretty good. We mangaed to get them cheap in Singapore so we are lucky. | ||
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Sander
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Posted: 2005-10-06 16:32 CEST | |
I have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, which works good for me.. It gives you a lot more freedom to move around during shows 
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Kevin
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Posted: 2005-10-07 03:55 CEST | |
Sander wrote:I have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, which works good for me.. It gives you a lot more freedom to move around during shows If I end up performing with my band enough, I defiantely want a clip on. I am an insanely animated player and anything else would be restricting. |
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Sander
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Posted: 2005-10-07 20:39 CEST | |
Kevin wrote:Sander wrote:I have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, which works good for me.. It gives you a lot more freedom to move around during shows that sennheiser costed me something like 130,- ($150?).. i don't know what the SM57's cost, but i didn't find it very expensive.. |
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Kevin
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Posted: 2005-10-07 23:38 CEST | |
Sander wrote:Kevin wrote:Sander wrote:I have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, which works good for me.. It gives you a lot more freedom to move around during shows What currency is that? I'm in Canada but either way It's pretty reasonable if you get the use out of it. Horns are an expensive hobby. I got reeds and a metronome today and it was like $50 and the music store is ordering in some Jazz reeds for me so when I go to pick those up, I am going to try out different mouthpeices so that will be a big cost. I really think brass have it easy when it comes to things. They buy their horn [that is definately cheaper than a sax] and they buy their mouthpiece. Sax's are damn expensive, there are so many mouthpeices that can be really expensive and you constantly have to but new reeds. But it's worth it. |
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skabone
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Posted: 2005-10-08 00:32 CEST | |
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when you have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, are you still able to use mutes and whatnot? alex\ 
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The Pope
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Posted: 2005-10-08 00:42 CEST | |
Kevin wrote:Sander wrote:Kevin wrote:Sander wrote:I have a Sennheiser 608 clip-on, which works good for me.. It gives you a lot more freedom to move around during shows HAHAHAHA Sax? More than Brass? Nada in that departement. Try buying a tuba. Or a bass trombone. Plus, mouthpieces (of high quality) range in the $100+ departement. |
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marty
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Posted: 2005-10-08 04:44 CEST | |
| Baritone saxes START at four grand. A pro model bari sax can cost you ten thousand dollars. | ||
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The Pope
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Posted: 2005-10-08 22:10 CEST | |
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Yes, and most tubas are at the 10,000+ mark. however, i would say most trumpets are comparable to alto saxes in price, and it would go up to 4 grand for a pro model trombone, if not more. French horns are at the 5 grand mark. |
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Kevin
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Posted: 2005-10-09 04:03 CEST | |
| Trumpets and trombones are pretty cheap comparitively. You can get a good Trumpet or Trombone for around $1000 and I'm talking Canadian. If you buy a sax for $1000, you have a load of crap. Even a $1600 sax is garabge [I'm talking tenor] I payed $2500 for a pretty good horn, defiantely not a pro model but not a student model. There is a really big difference between a good sax and a bad sax. A bad sax sounds like crap and to get a good sax you have to pay. And our mouthpieces are just as expensive and alot of them are a couple hundred dollars. And here's the kicker, Sax's need reeds. Lets face it, reeds are close to the most annoying thing on the planet. You buy a package that isn't cheap and in that package, you wont like every reed because they are an imperfect product of nature. Then reeds get old or break or for no explained reason, start sounding like shit and then you need to go out and buy another package. One a brass players buys a horn and mouthpeice they are set. There are also so many kinds of reeds, reeds for classical reeds for jazz and the same applies to mouthpieces. So if a sax player wants to play the two different styles, they need two different set ups because you definately cannot get away with a jazz set up in classical and vice versa. [Provided they have specific set-ups, which at some point during their experience they need to get] | ||
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ElDesconocido
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Posted: 2005-10-10 21:47 CEST | |
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i bought my tenor sax at a sellout for 1200 euros, it's not a student modell and not a pro neither, the real price was, i guess 1700-1800, my mouthpiece, which is a dukoff cost another 280 euros, just the mouthpiece, and then i got this clip-on mic, now we're ontopic again, that cost me another 150 euros, it's an akg c 419-pp i agree with kevin, whatever he said about the reeds, it takes you a long time to find the perfect reed... i play the vandoren zz, or something, they sound really "edgy" with my metal-mouthpiece. but student modells aren't always crap, depends on the brand, well even my sax-teacher, who studied saxophon, plays on a sax that's classified as student, if it was crap, she would'nt be a teacher, and it sounds amazing |
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me
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Posted: 2005-11-16 08:52 CEST | |
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Kinda went off on a little tangent there eh? The shure sm-57 is really the top of the range stage mic for us middle class people(speaking for myself) Reel Big Fish, The Cat Empire, and James Morrison all use them, and you can get them for about $AUD220, which is about $US150 depending on what day of the week it is 
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