Stanley Clarke with Fleck and Ponty at JVC

bassame · #1 06-26-2005, 11:09 AM

Did anyone have a chance to see this Trio at Carnegie Hall last week? I saw a photo in the Saturday NYTimes that was not put up on their website, but it was a nice shot of Stanley and his equipment. From what I could make out he was using a small omnidirectional (sphere shaped head) mic taped with duct tape (I kid you not) to his tailpiece, going into a small black box with a white logo oriented diagonally downward (cant make out the brand but maybe someone will recall this) and out to two SWR redheads or super redheads (2x10 each). No pickup.

Bassame

bassphase · #2 06-27-2005, 06:32 AM

The shape of the mic head has NOTHING to do with it's pickup pattern. It's unlikely it was an omni mic since they pickup in a 360 degree pattern making feedback and bleed from other instruments etc even more likely.

bob

bassame · #3 06-27-2005, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassphase

The shape of the mic head has NOTHING to do with it's pickup pattern. It's unlikely it was an omni mic since they pickup in a 360 degree pattern making feedback and bleed from other instruments etc even more likely.

bob

Thank you for setting me straight.

Phil Smith · #4 06-27-2005, 12:16 PM

I was at that concert and it was great except Stan's sound kept going out because of either a bad cord or bad connector to I guess was a microphone. When he would go into his slap thing on the upright it would go silent and also happened when he was just playing fingerstyle. The sound people used a thin piece of duct tape at first then used a much hefty piece but the problem persisted. He still killed though.

bassame · #5 06-28-2005, 08:15 AM

Thanks Phil. I like your location. Anyone else there??

johnvice · #6 06-28-2005, 08:24 AM

I'm seeing Stanley tommorow at the TRIO show in Toronto! Any other TBers coming ?

Aaron Saunders · #7 07-05-2005, 08:37 AM

Apparently for their performance at the Jazz Festival in Montreal, Stanley's flight out of NYC was cancelled and they had a Toronto bassist sit in. I was talking to my teacher last night and apparently the poor guy was pushed to his limits, but the crowd gave him a huge hand. It's one thing to be a great bassist in Toronto, but filling in for Stanley Clarke? Yeeeeeeeah. Ouch.

Sam Sherry · #8 07-05-2005, 09:34 AM

'fess up: Who hasn't dreamed of it?

Aaron Saunders · #9 07-05-2005, 05:38 PM

All too true...