Recording: The Drones
3 Comments Published by Kevin Broken Scar on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 11:21 PM.
This is my man Carl on Bagpipes!
Today was an awesome day for me as far as recording goes. I took on the role of just a recording engineer and not having to half moonlight as a singer songwriter/guitarist while I'm at it.
This is the first time that I've recorded the bagpipes and it was the first time in the history of SAE Melbourne for recording bagpipes. How cool is that? I'll go down in history!
The bagpipes were loud and I felt I was transported to another dimension, a place I've never been before. Well, probably if you've been to Scotland, that will be a different story all together.
Anyway, I had three mics going and for you recording people out there, here are the specs. I used an SE Electronics 5600 for room tone, an AKG C414 for the chanter and an SE Electronics pencil mic (the model slipped my mind) for the drones.
I should say, the results were pretty sweet sounding and all in all, we recorded four songs of solo bagpipes extravaganza!
!!! Bagpipes so fun.
Why don't you get a bagpipe player for your band hee hee
Cool..!I wonder how the final result would be..SOunds interesting.. :D
jiameei: not a bad idea at all.
karl: I've mixed it already, but I'm gonna go to the studio to have another listen and tweak a bit more. will hopefully post a clip here soon. cheers!