Recording on the Yamaha silent Brass

danny45635 · Heavyweight Member Joined: 01 Feb 2015 Posts: 508

I got a Yamaha silent brass a few months ago and it has been really helpful, however I'm not sure if I'm using the right settings to record. I use garage band on my IPad by the way. The recordings always sound funky. Anyone have any tips? I'm not exactly sure which settings go do what.
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x9ret · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:28 pm Post subject:

As much as I like silent brass, recordings from it will always struggle to sound as good as recordings from an open mic. I tend to use silent brass to record for my own use when away from home if I need to put some ideas down. Usually I would plug silent brass into the computer and use a software such as Audacity?

My advice is that trial and error is the way forward. Lots of it, adjusting the EQ and reverb settings in particular.
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okayove · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:59 pm Post subject:

Silent brass is very good for practise in hotel and simular places where you want to keep the volume to a minimum. To record from it, i don't think it was designed for it in the first place, to much of everything you don't want. it's just an option to put ideas down to remember. Imho a very good option for the buck.

//Ove
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zaferis · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:03 am Post subject:

IMO you will never get a good sound for recording out of a practice mute.. first of all the microphone/pick-up is not designed for that and is really too far up the bell of the instrument to get anything but a "funky" sound...

A wonderful practice mute though, with a bunch of added benefits along those lines. Recording not one of them.
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danny45635 · Heavyweight Member Joined: 01 Feb 2015 Posts: 508

Thanks for the input everyone. I was just wondering cause on one advertisement I saw, the person claimed it was "excellent" for recording. So that made me wonder if I was doing anything wrong to make such odd sounding recordings.
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