The Intramic is similar to pickup-style mics which are fitted onto the barrel or neck of a clarinet or saxophone. The key features of these types of mics are:
*Don’t produce feedback
*Isolated from other instruments on stage
*Even coverage of the entire range of the instrument.
However the Intramic DOESN’T REQUIRE DRILLING INTO THE INSTRUMENT!!
I’ve recently joined the Behn Mouthpieces Artists team. I first became acquainted with Brad Behn’s mouthpieces at the 2013 ClarinetFest in Assisi. I had tried some of his pieces for clarinet, and found one that I really liked in his Signature Collection. It was quite open (something like 1.56 tip opening… typical “classical” mouthpieces are between 1.0-1.10 or so), which I like for klezmer, jazz, and a lot of contemporary music. It blew quite freely, and I had a lot of flexibility for bending notes, multiphonics, and slap tongues. It’s also loud as hell! But what especially caught my attention was how clean and centered the tone still was.
The newest issue of The Clarinet magazine (Vol.41 #4, September 2014) focuses on the bass clarinet. One of the recurring articles is Clarinet Cache written by Kellie Lignitz-Hahn and Rachel Yoder, and in this issue they wrote “A guide to bass clarinet on the web… an annotated guide to some of the best online bass clarinet resources.” And I’ve made the cut with this website and blog!
Micing a clarinet, and especially a bass clarinet, is difficult. I had a list of several requirements of a microphone…
I’ve decided to start posting product and gear reviews, something I had been debating doing for a while…
