| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: How do you record a flugle horn?
by old_dan | 02/16/01 at 01:56:24
I have a flugle horn and a microphone. What else do I need?
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by Frodo | 02/21/01 at 02:02:53
Is this some kind of joke? Everyone knows you need a mic stand.
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by Broken_Recor | 02/21/01 at 11:16:38
First you need a mic cable of adequate length that will allow you to record the horn in your garage. Everyone knows that the acoustics of a garage will allow the horn to resonate to its full potential. Be certain that you use a vacated two car garage. If all you have available is a three car garage, park one car in the right most bay. The car should be larger than a honda civic, but smaller than a Chevy Tahoe. Place the mic in a corner of the garage while you stand, facing the wall of the opposite corner. This will enable the sound waves proper room for bouncing and "subtle" echo. Plug the mic into an amplifier, I prefer a Roland Jazz Chorus. Don't forget to insert an Ibanez Tube Screamer stomp box in the chain to add a taste of distortion that many associate with Flugle horns (see the intro to "Train Train" by Blackfoot as a reference point, which is a Flugle Horn most critics have mistaken for a harmonica). To achieve professional results, add as much reverb as you have available to the singal to intensify any echo the garage may have left out. Sprinkle in some chorus to flavor and go from there. I could write a book about the different strategies involved, but with a little trial and error, you'll have great success.
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by Percy | 02/23/01 at 10:11:23
WELL what Id do first before even getting out any mic's cords/whatever is feed the flugle-hornist a waaaay more than polite amount of lentle type veggies(beans,fresh peas,etc).Wait a couple of hours before attempting to record. Ya with me so far? Ok. Using a slightly modified approach taken by Broken Record, while the hornist is standing in said corner of garage, place a good condenser(large or small diaphram depending on size of hornist) about a foot away from his other working orfice. No pants impoves clarity,especially on the high notes, and a heavy duty windsock is highly recommended on the condenser in the unlikly case of a followthrough.
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by Broken_Recor | 02/23/01 at 10:48:47
Excellent advice from Percy on this. I had tried a similar approach, but used chicken livers wrapped in bacon and deep fried rather than beans with a rather rotund flugle horn player, but was hesitant to mention it because of an unfortunate incident. The thought of a windsock escaped me, though, and would without a doubt remedy the "problem" quite nicely.
It's great that we have a fabulous forum like this to exchange ideas. I think this string of posts in particular shows just how effectively we can learn valuable techniques. Kudos! 8)
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by old_dan | 02/25/01 at 19:54:42
So what you're saying is it makes a difference as to what end I attach the flugle horn, right? And I agree diet is very important in creating a convincing performance.
heh heh heh
Take care,
Dan
Subject: Re: How do you record a flugle horn?
by db | 03/02/01 at 19:39:13
First, the night before, feed the flugle a fine meal of currents, and put it to bed early, cause flugles don't like morning sessions, you have to make the flugle think it is later in the day ,so.. hide your watch and all clocks. Flugles can't tell the difference between night and day, just by looking at it. But they sense clocks. So, call ahead to the studio to tell the engineer about the clocks, and that mic is coming with flugle too.
--db, I. A. Flugle Co.