Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] RE: Blowing too hard - and leading a group

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabeth - 



Yes, this was a smaller grouping from SFSF (about fifteen players - 1
cello, 1 guitar, 1 percussion, 1 piper, 1 harmonica, and the rest
fiddlers. As this was the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, which I
happened to be leading that day, and not "Winslow Yerxa accompanied by
a bunch of fiddlers," I asked that the sound guy mix me in with the
group, and you can hear my sound blended in with the fiddles, even
though the sound is being recorded by a video camera about halfway back
in a school auditorium. 



I was using a wireless rig and my mic was a tiny Audix condenser mic 
on a gooseneck strapped to my left wrist. Instead of cupping the mic in
my hands, which would have compressed the sound, I placed it outside my
hands, pointed back at the sound opening. This gives me a completely
acoustic sound combined with the freedom to move around onstage, which
is especially crucial when you're leading (in that situation I often
don't play, as it's more important to give the musicians any cues they
need - you may notice that in the other clip, Alasdair Fraser doesn't
play much if at all, even though it's a tune he wrote (Vally of the
Moon Reel)).



Winslow


--- On Thu, 7/10/08, EGS1217@xxxxxxx <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: EGS1217@xxxxxxx <EGS1217@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] RE: Blowing too hard....
To: winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 9:26 PM



 

 
 
Winslow, I found this:
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfxIDPqb00s
 
 
 
an entirely different video..but there you are, conducting and then playing 
harmonica....3/4 of the way through there is a closer view of you playing...the 
sound isn't optimum (never is when someone's taping from a 
distance from the stage)...
 
Elizabeth


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