magazine 9/08 mag4musicians news & infos

magazine 9/08 mag4musicians news & infos


A further selection from Musikmesse 2008. Roland did show the new Edrumset TD-9 with a very unique feature in the Control Unit: a straight optical control of one's timing precision. This is a real help to improve these skills. Fabian Olk of Roland did show how it works and laters explains how sounds can be altered in the module (sorry, German only).


Recording an Edrumset does not require any microphones instead it can be conntected directly to a mixing unit. While an acustic drumset needs a lot more efforts for placing the microphones as next two videos tips show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYJshpdEC8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQCna2b92MU

There may be situations where there are not the required microphones or channle inputs available for recording. In such cases MS technique might help. Only two mics are neede for Mid-Sideband recording and it does add some more spatial feel. As it is 100% monocompatible is quite common in broadcasting. The video tip shows what mics and tools are required, and how these can be used.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5904764765462872646&hl=en

Beside the advantages mentioned in the video MS recording shows a major drawback as it is no stereo image posiible by nature. For example you can not have a HiHat on the right and floortoms on the left using MS recording.



While microphones in studios are often treated as raw eggs this is quite different on stage. Thus a mic for usage on stage shuold be quite robust. One of the most famous stage mics is the Shure SM-58. Exactly one of these had been used by some Swedish guys to test it's endurance by several really rough torments with checking the mics functionality after each procedure. You'll be surprised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QPLbQi9FI


Vintage Synth of this issue is the Roland Jupiter 8 of 1981 a real analog powerhorse with impressing sounds. One ot it's remarkable features has been the option to split or layer two different sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxnPH5qahY

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• mag4musicians
• Musikmesse
• Roland
• TD-9
• Jupiter-8
• MS-recording
• Drum-recording
• E-Drums

[collideherscope]

the host, she is beautiful!

[MichaelJHuman]

Nice.

What was she saying again ?