Using Your Microphone; Wind Instruments; General Hints; Saxophone - AKG MicroMic C 519 M User Instructions

3 Using Your Microphone

3.1 Wind
Instruments
3.1.1 General
Hints
Brass
Instruments:

3.1.2 Saxophone

3.1.3 Clarinet

Fig. 5: Miking up a
clarinet with two
microphones.
Refer to fig. 5.
Alternative
technique with
no stand-mount-
ed microphone:
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1. Clamp the microphone on the bell.
2. Aim the microphone at the rim of the bell.
• You can modify the sound by varying the mi-
crophone position.
• If you get too much wind noise, slip the sup-
plied external windscreen on the microphone.
• If you use a mute, be sure to position the mi-
crophone outside of the bell to clear the mute.
• For subtone playing, you might like to align the
microphone with the middle of the bell.
• The clarinet radiates low frequencies through
the keys and high frequencies through the bell
only.
• We therefore recommend aiming a stand-
mounted microphone (e.g., a C 5900 or C 535
from AKG) at the keys in addition to the C 519.
1. Clamp the microphone on the bell so that the mi-
crophone will look at the outside of the clarinet.
2. Point the microphone at the lowest key. This is
the only area where all frequencies are radiated
at approximately equal intensity.
AKG C 519 M / C 519 ML