Double Bass Remic Green for recording?

[alexbrownebass]

Hi everyone -

So I bought the Remic “Green” model from a friend a few months ago with the intention of using it live. However, recently my needs have changed and I need a good quality studio mic for DB. Has anyone had experience recording with the Green model? I know it’s built for live use and the “Red” model is supposed to be the superior studio mic, but I’m wondering how close I can get with what I currently have.

 

[Ric Vice]

Hi everyone -

So I bought the Remic “Green” model from a friend a few months ago with the intention of using it live. However, recently my needs have changed and I need a good quality studio mic for DB. Has anyone had experience recording with the Green model? I know it’s built for live use and the “Red” model is supposed to be the superior studio mic, but I’m wondering how close I can get with what I currently have.

Sure, but I’d experiment with it to see if you like the recorded sound. The Red’s capsule is oriented parallel to the top while the Remic Green is oriented perpendicular to the top. The Green also has a baked in low frequency bump.

 

[AGCurry]

I don't think any transducer which mounts to or in the bass will do - for recording - as well as a quality microphone correctly positioned "off" of the bass.

 

[logdrum]

I don't think any transducer which mounts to or in the bass will do - for recording - as well as a quality microphone correctly positioned "off" of the bass.

These remics are condenser mics and are pretty high fi. Problem with micing unless you have the clip on mounts is that as a DB player you care constantly shifting the bass if you play standing up and your signal could drop off unless they have to compress it while tracking. And all those clip on things in my mind damp sound specially when on the the tailpiece or are too intrusive if clipped on by the ribs

Best sound was remic and a condenser as an additional secondary signal

 

[AGCurry]

Well, if it sounds good, it is good ... but just because a mic is a condenser does not change the physics of sound waves coming off of a large instrument. If we assume that the sound of the bass as we hear it in the room is what we want to capture (and yes, that is arguable), then I fail to see why a transducer right up on the top plate could be more desirable than a good microphone a couple of feet off the bass.

Obviously, compromises are sometimes necessary - the room may not be ideal, or it's impossible to get the separation desired, or it's not a great instrument. But I think most great recordings of double bass are and have been made with a single well-placed microphone (and not necessarily condensers ... I love my AEA ribbons!).

 

[Ric Vice]

I've recently done some recording with the Remic Red. In the Tuhill Auditorium on the campus of University of Missouri St. Louis. I'll post some clips of

what it sounded like, when I get back from visiting relatives. The Remic 5400 is not a piezo transducer, it's a microphone, develpoped by engineers who formerely

worked for Bruel and Kajre in Denmark.