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Well, it's Sunday, and after a healthy glass (or 2) of Bordeaux, I finally got around to something that I had been intending to do for ages; an objective comparison between two well known French tenors; a '54 Buffet Dynaction, and a '59 Selmer VI with high f#, (currently my only 2 tenors left).
Since I know from experience that sound perceptions are highly dependent upon mpc and reed I, made short clips with 4 quite different mpcs; a wooden 8* Lebayle Jazz? (modified by me to include a small baffle), a vintage steel Berg 130/1 M, a Lawton 9*B, and a JodyJazz ESP 120 with baffle included. The JJ and the Berg were used with a std. Dukoff Lig, the lawton with it's own lig, and the Lebayle with a BG soloist lig. All recordings were with with the same LaVoz medium reed, and recorded with a SM57 onto laptop via a Digital soundcard. All recordings are NON-normalised, so differences in volume should also be evident.
In all cases the order of play with each mpc is the same, and I always start with an ascending scale. One set of recordings is with the sax close to the mike ('close'), but to try and emphasise the differences between mpcs I also repeated the recordings with the mike approx 1 m distance ('far').
So there are four ~3min recordings, '1. close', '1. far', '2. close', '2. far'.
Who can discern between the saxes?!! and which setup sounds better to you?? Is the VI worth the price?
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=517549
For the foolhardy and/or brave, you can also try and identify the individual mpcs used in each set of recordings.
Finally this was Sunday afternoon - and I just slapped one mpc on after the other.. - so don't expect much in terms of content!
Since I know from experience that sound perceptions are highly dependent upon mpc and reed I, made short clips with 4 quite different mpcs; a wooden 8* Lebayle Jazz? (modified by me to include a small baffle), a vintage steel Berg 130/1 M, a Lawton 9*B, and a JodyJazz ESP 120 with baffle included. The JJ and the Berg were used with a std. Dukoff Lig, the lawton with it's own lig, and the Lebayle with a BG soloist lig. All recordings were with with the same LaVoz medium reed, and recorded with a SM57 onto laptop via a Digital soundcard. All recordings are NON-normalised, so differences in volume should also be evident.
In all cases the order of play with each mpc is the same, and I always start with an ascending scale. One set of recordings is with the sax close to the mike ('close'), but to try and emphasise the differences between mpcs I also repeated the recordings with the mike approx 1 m distance ('far').
So there are four ~3min recordings, '1. close', '1. far', '2. close', '2. far'.
Who can discern between the saxes?!! and which setup sounds better to you?? Is the VI worth the price?
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=517549
For the foolhardy and/or brave, you can also try and identify the individual mpcs used in each set of recordings.
Finally this was Sunday afternoon - and I just slapped one mpc on after the other.. - so don't expect much in terms of content!