@@LowlyMountainBanjos Could you share some details on your recording setup? I've recently figured out how to play Glory bound based on your video (one of my favorites) and I just can't get my recordings to sound any good. My phone peaks and sounds terrible and my desktop microphone (a pretty high-end dynamic xlr mic) just doesn't do instruments any justice. I think you mentioned in another video you use a lapel mic, if so could you share what one specifically? Cheers!
Mics matter less than technique. I’m formally trained in audio engineering so these recordings are a combination of mics, placement, and post-production. My current setup is a pair of DJI lapel recorders. I put them in different places depending on the banjo. Here I have one under my shirt below my chin, and one clipped to the soundhole of the banjo. To avoid the kind of distortion you mentioned the input levels need to be set properly. Afterwards I bring the audio into an editor and mix it so that it accurately represents the sound of the instrument in person, while adhering to industry standards for publishing.
It’s a custom order so already sold. I’m currently only taking custom orders with the occasional luthier’s stock posted to my website. I’ll also post all of those to my RUclips channel a full two days before anywhere else so keep an eye out for that. I’m trying to get a very special mountain banjo up before Thanksgiving.
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very cool
The round wound would bug me. Too bad they aren't flat wound. The sound is fantastic.
I think I still prefer the sound of the flatwounds personally.
fred-san How are you? That sounds really good. Could you tell me the tuning for the first to fifth strings of this banjo?
Greetings. This is a full octave below standard banjo - from fifth to first string it is gCGCD.
@@LowlyMountainBanjos Thank you! I'll try practicing right away!
The tune is called “Over the Waterfall” of want to look it up.
@@LowlyMountainBanjos Could you share some details on your recording setup? I've recently figured out how to play Glory bound based on your video (one of my favorites) and I just can't get my recordings to sound any good. My phone peaks and sounds terrible and my desktop microphone (a pretty high-end dynamic xlr mic) just doesn't do instruments any justice. I think you mentioned in another video you use a lapel mic, if so could you share what one specifically? Cheers!
Mics matter less than technique. I’m formally trained in audio engineering so these recordings are a combination of mics, placement, and post-production.
My current setup is a pair of DJI lapel recorders. I put them in different places depending on the banjo. Here I have one under my shirt below my chin, and one clipped to the soundhole of the banjo. To avoid the kind of distortion you mentioned the input levels need to be set properly. Afterwards I bring the audio into an editor and mix it so that it accurately represents the sound of the instrument in person, while adhering to industry standards for publishing.
Woah are you going to sell this one with the strings? It sounds very nice
It’s a custom order so already sold. I’m currently only taking custom orders with the occasional luthier’s stock posted to my website. I’ll also post all of those to my RUclips channel a full two days before anywhere else so keep an eye out for that. I’m trying to get a very special mountain banjo up before Thanksgiving.
@@LowlyMountainBanjos Ah ok thank you for letting me know