Archive for the ‘Shure Beta 58 A’ Category
Nov
2007
More Shure Beta 58 A News, and A Sad Little Song Sans Drums
Rain Lament (Jaspertine Triste Mix)
If there was been one complaint about my music, across the boards, it had been about the drum choices. I happen to love a noisy, white wall cacaphony, but apparently it is not for everyone. I must now need to mention here, ditto ditto (aka Philippe) from just outside of Paris, with his fine ear and sensitivity for subtle sounds. We have been working globally together, on a few projects. The piece is called “Tell us your secret Kaer Trouz” you can listen by following this link , and if you want to download the acapella, you can by creating an account with CCmixter. I have been working hard to understand my new microphone, which like a new friend,must be worked out. Here is a screen shot of all the lines I must draw around my voice, in order to make it. The pink lines represent the manual drawing I did, which , on this particular piece, took 25 minutes. The black lines are my voice.
November sometimes hits me like a locomotive, I love autumn, the chilly hubris, damp smoke and fresh rot, the ways the trees look like stark brooms, jutting into the sky. I have been wanting for a while to do a piece without drums, and found some brilliant guitar samples from Jaspertine on CCmixter, as well as a realistically recorded thunderstorm from RHumphries, and another spare ambient industrial loop from dropthedyle, who may be my favorite Belgian scary noise maker of all time (if one were to have such a favorite).
Lastly, SAM is packing up a truck in Washington DC, and will be in Chicago on Sunday, and after a month of many email & file exchanges, plus a disturbing amount of IM exchanges, we will finally start our project, which I am over the moon about. Stay tuned….
Nov
2007
My Shure Died.
Yes, the old Shure SM 58, from 1992, died yesterday. RIP. I felt sad for a moment, but luckily, because it is a commodity, I was able to replace it with a better more reliable microphone. A Shure Beta 58 A.
Microphones are important for singers. I actually do not know much about them. I was talked into buying a FET microphone last year, a Groove Tube 55, which was a terrible mistake. I am not technically adept to know why this Fet microphone was so wrong for me, other than in the higher registers, this mic made my voice sound thin & weedy, and rank, and was not able to pick up lower registers, or nuances in vibrato. When Randy, our turtle, arranged her rocks in her tank- that you could hear perfectly!
This time, I made the skanky dude at the Music shop take all the mics out of the case so I could try them. I loved how this Shure sounded, organic, gooey and crisp, all at once!
I did a little remix/new composition today, featuring my new dulcet tones, culling a piano sample from Klaus Neumaier courtesy of ccmixter, and a crackly ambient loop from Drop The Dyle, courtesy of the freesound project.
Winter Comes
