Re: OT: Found sounds, contact mic recommendation

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 You might want to try epoxying th string to the
center of a small, decent quality speaker. with the
proper tension on the string,the speaker could
generate some kool signals. notethat I have never
tried this, but always used rat-shack peizos. mabe
epoxying the string to the center of the peizo. So
many possiblilities. i have used the rat shack 273-064
for everything from pianos, harps, fiddles, mandolins,
to tower bracing cables, industrial machine surfaces,
engine blocks,heads etc. Probably the best was when I
took 2 homemade celtic harps out front during a windy
day, put a peizo on the bass and treble end of each
soundboard and 4 tracked it all while the wind was
blowing through the strings. I have 16 22 minute
cassettes of this to stack up on multitrack to make a
VERY ethereal piece of muzik. It ought to be very
mesmerizing if I ever get around to finishing the
project.
Rig


--- "Veda, Qua" <qua.veda@intel.com> wrote:

> I'd like to record some found sounds by mic'ing a
> string connected to
> various items.   The string would have some tension
> in it.   I'm
> imagining sandwiching the string between a contact
> mic and a hard object
> , or maybe between two contact mics.
> 
> Any recommendations of what kind of mic could be
> used to do this?  
> 
> In the meantime, here is a fun musical piece using
> recordings of
> gargling and splashing in a bath tub
> http://www.waterdogstudio.com/bowl/
> 
> -Qua
> 



      
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