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You can see Johnathan's mic more clearly in some of the later performances that night. The mic mount is attached to the tailpiece. The mic sits over the lower bout.
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09-19-2024 07:37 AM
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Ha, finally a (partly) acoustic evening with!
(And no feedback! )
It's true that you have to know where to look, the thing is in the shadows all the time (or behind an audience head).
Jonathan has that Italian renaissance sprezzatura thing of making everything seem easy (and playing a lot more notes than he seems to be).
Of course, if you've seen him in his band's lindy performances it's kind of evident why he isn't breaking a hint of a sweat here
Yup. He has a blog where he describes in detail what he uses and how. A DPA XXXX lavalier mic on a gooseneck, pointed somewhere behind the treble side of the bridge.
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Also looks like Frank brought (or is using) a Princeton to which is lower wattage then what he usually seems to have there…a Deluxe? Maybe as a courtesy to the L5.
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Hah! Getting out of the subway yesterday afternoon I saw I guy in the station with glasses and two jumbo gig bags and thought to myself "hey, is that Jonathan Stout? Nah, he wouldn't be hanging out around here". I live in an a somewhat off-the-beaten-track neighborhood, so not an obvious place for cats in town for a gig to crop up. Fired up the old youtube machine this morning, and there he is. Sounded great.
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He sings too!!
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I thought Frank was quite good in this one.
Stout is always good too. Frank is kinda winning me over with this one.
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From how I remember the NY subway (sauna and/or sardine cans) he was pretty courageous to take 2 valuable instruments on it. One of which was not his own, btw.
He does, but he seems to think that's not as appreciated as his playing, and I may not disagree with him on that
This was definitely one of the more enjoyable concerts for me too but it also underlined that I definitely prefer an acoustic sound over esp. the nasal sound Frank gets from the instrument he was hiding behind.
Anyone catch exactly what went wrong in that one piece that got a take 2?
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It just look a bit like Jonathan wasn't of the same opinion, and I doubt anyone would have realised if Frank had just recovered from that sloppy jump-in. I didn't notice anything off and even if I had I wouldn't have remembered it like this surprise and somewhat heavy-handed restart.
EDIT: maybe I'm wrong that it must be easier to recover from this kind of glitch in mostly improvised performance?
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Of course it's not all that important. I was just surprised, it didn't seem like the thing we'd call a restart for in a classical performance. But maybe that's the thing: Frank may have heard things beginning to fall apart where I (or we) didn't.
I think Jonathan was goofing around by not stopping. It all seemed in good spirits to me.
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Man, Jonathan was the loudest guy on stage for a while there. And I wish I knew anything as thoroughly as he knows swing guitar.
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The Birdland sound can be very uneven at the start of livestreams. One instrument can be too loud, some can't be heard, it's often all over the place. It works out eventually, but it's as if there was no sound check at all. Maybe there is none. That's my only complaint about their livestreams. It comes together eventually, and the video is always excellent. There are livestreams on the internet that are far less professional (cough Smalls cough) with both video and audio that is amateurish. Birdland is always first-rate eventually, even if it can start out with some of the band not being heard for a couple of minutes. This one started out with Frank barely audible, but it got fixed, as always. At least they use actual mics, not just the built-in mics in cheap video cams.
Vintage fuzz on "space" transistors
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