I'm looking for any information on what mic's are good to use, as well as positioning.
I currently have Macintosh Plaintalk mic, a Peavy PV1 Mic, and an Alesis Midiverb2.
Has there ever been a whistle pick-up mic, like on a guitar?
Mic-ing the whistle
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rich
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Well, a pickup and a mic aren't the same things. An electric guitar pickup works by magnetically sensing the string movement, and an acoustic piezo transducer by picking up the vibrations of the soundboard -- neither really pick up the vibrations-in-air sound of the instrument.
You won't find a whole lot of wind instrument transducers. The only one I can think of is for trumpet, and it sounds like a trumpet transducer, not like a trumpet. So it's just a case of buying a unidirectional or cardoid mic that meets your needs and budget and playing in front of it.
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You won't find a whole lot of wind instrument transducers. The only one I can think of is for trumpet, and it sounds like a trumpet transducer, not like a trumpet. So it's just a case of buying a unidirectional or cardoid mic that meets your needs and budget and playing in front of it.
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I've had very good luck with the MicroVox flute mic (http://www.microvox.demon.co.uk/flutepage.htm). It does a great job. The link above will show you the swan neck. I also have the M500. Using the swan neck I put it about an inch above the blade. With the M500, I've made a little attachement piece that I can position about 1 centimeter away from the hole and perpendicular to the whistle body.
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