Flute with guitar effects 1 (500 Miles High)

My setup here is: a Audio Technica Pro-70 Mic connected to a BOSS DD-6 delay pedal and a GT-6 multi-effect. On the GT-6 I use the Preamp, Chorus, Reverb and Pitch-Shifter. First patch - pretty much clean, second - kind of chorused / detune sound, third - detune with high octave, fourth - wacky harmonies (3rd's and 6th's).
I'm playing here over a Chick Corea "500 Miles High" play-along.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• Flute
• 500
• Miles
• High
• Multi
• Effect
• GT6
• Guitar
• Effects
• Udi
• Wahrsager

[soniaterhovanessian]

Hi there. First of all, love what you're doing.great sound, great improv! I am a flautist and interested in playing around with the electronic sound aspect, just as you have been doing here. I have looked up your equipment online and I have a question for you. What do you use to attach the PRO70 mic to your flute. I can't make it out in the video and on the sites I've found they're selling clips, but I don't see how a clip would fit on a flute. What do you use?

Thanks very much!

Sonia

[flutecorner]

@soniaterhovanessian Thanks Sonia. It's funny because I hardly play with those effects but that got all the views... Anyway, I simply put a small piece off sponge on the edge of the head-joint and then place the mic above it and strap them together with a hair tie. You can attach the mic directly to the flute but the sponge protects it from scratches and I think it works better in general. It's nothing fancy, but it works.

[flutecorner]

:) 

[nroblese]

hey! this is truly great stuff, and you are a good player!

I have a question. Whats a good EQ for jazz flute?

Im just getting into recording myself.

Best to you!

Nick

[flutecorner]

@nroblese Thanks for the comment. About EQ I can't really answer, it depends on too many factors - mic, room, your tone production and more than everything your personal taste.

[BlackPig]

Usefull performance- I'm trying to play flute in small acustic band and decided to buy Audio Technica Pro-70 Mic after watching Your video :) Before I tried only vocal microphone, which was very anoying, because I coudn't move and sound quality was poor - Hope Your solution will help - I'm going to try also delay effects etc. :)

[nroblese]

@flutecorner

Flute players? Only Hubert Laws. but other instruments Jaco Pastorius, Christian Scott, Miles Davis, etc....

Is there anything I could do with plugins to have more of a jazz sound?

[flutecorner]

@nroblese Thanks Nick. My sound is influenced mostly from sax and trumpet players. The only jazz flutist whose sound I really imitated is Hubert Laws, and he has a very clean and gorgeous tone. I'm really not looking for the dirty tone, but if you are then listen to players who do it well. On the flute a good example I can think of is Jorge Pardo. He's not a strictly jazz player but among all those who play with "the dirty" sound I like what he's doing. It's a matter of taste obviously.

[flutecorner]

@nroblese Thanks Nick. About sound, the first thing I'd say is how much do you listen and to whom? You can't get a good jazz sound and feel without listen to good players. Most great jazz players are not flutists, so I had to look for my sound concept in other instruments, mostly sax and trumpet. The only flutist that really influenced my sound is Hubert Laws, and he plays with a very clear and gorgeous tone.

[thrakker84]

@nroblese My general philosophy for mic'd acoustic instruments is this: if you try to use EQ to create "a sound', you will fail every time. The goal is to reflect the natural (as in what you hear "unplugged") EQ curve of the instrument and not to embellish any particular frequency. Generally the best thing to do is to zero everything out and then incrementally take away from any frequencies that sound overbearing.

[hagaire]

חבל"ז אודי..... היורש (: