Johnathan Smith, Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra Engineer/FOH, Picks Sanken CU-55 Microphones
Johnathan Smith, Jazz at Lincoln Heart orchestra engineer/FOH, has embraced the compact but highly effective Sanken CU-55 microphone for trumpets each within the famend New York Metropolis venue and for touring worldwide with the Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The trumpet is without doubt one of the loudest devices in orchestras, usually ranging between 80 and 110 decibels in SPL.
“I’ve began utilizing the CU-55s as my trumpet microphones they usually work fantastically,” says Smith. “The off-axis response is so clean that when Wynton or any of the opposite trumpet gamers play a bit off-axis it nonetheless sounds superb.”
With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and visitor artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Heart produces hundreds of efficiency, schooling, and broadcast occasions every season in its dwelling, Frederick P. Rose Corridor, often known as The Home of Swing in New York, NY and all over the world, for individuals of all ages. The group was based in 1987 and opened the primary performing arts corridor designed for jazz on Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan in in 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the managing and inventive director of the Jazz at Lincoln Heart.
Sanken’s CU-55 microphone homes a side-firing 16mm capsule. Designed with a resonant chamber like the favored massive format Sanken CU-51 and CU-44X MK II microphones, it’s tuned to create an ideal cardioid sample with out proximity points.
Johnathan Smith elaborates, “Now we have 4 trumpets with 4 CU-55 mics, together with the one for Wynton. The sound is excellent when the brass comes by massive corridor sound techniques, which is the place we carry out more often than not.”
FOH Jazz at Lincoln Heart combine engineer Johnathan Smith.
Jazz at Lincoln Heart produces performances by the orchestra and by visiting musicians and lots of live shows are streamed reside on the Jazz Stay app. For data, go to www.jazzlive.com. The group additionally produces instructional applications in particular person at Frederick P. Rose Corridor, on-line, and in colleges all through the world.
Wynton Marsalis is seen enjoying with the Sanken
CU-55 microphone throughout the Midwinter Tour 2024.
Smith continues, “The CU-55 has a really pure heat on the low finish, so it helps seize the pure physique of the instrument. I additionally use them on piano so much as a result of it’s so wealthy sounding – all of the Sanken mics that I’ve used have a really pure sound. With piano, due to the place the drums are, the 55’s not solely have the graceful off-axis response, however behind the capsule it’s virtually a ten DB drop. I get a lot much less drum bleed within the piano mics than every other microphones I’ve used. I prefer to put them throughout the strings, one on the excessive aspect, and one on the low aspect and really flip them the wrong way up in order that the capsule is nearer to the strings than the physique. It simply helps mitigate that drum bleed. And that manner the again of the mic is pointing on the cymbals, that are on the tail finish of the piano.”
“Masters of Kind: Duke, Jelly Roll and Mingus,” that includes members of the Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at Rose Theater. Sanken CU-55 microphones on guitar and piano.
Smith has additionally discovered a candy spot for the CU-55 in drum miking. “I’ve been actually having fun with it on the snare drum, as a result of it’s small, with aspect deal with. It’s troublesome to get every other mic in there as a result of the cymbals and the excessive hat are so near the snare drum. I can simply set it up close to the rim and I’ve acquired the sound I’m on the lookout for. The CU-55 can deal with very excessive SPL and completely takes it like a champ.”
The Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs in The Home of Swing, and excursions all over the world. Concert events are additionally streamed on the group’s Jazz Stay app. Since 2015, the orchestra’s albums have been issued on JALC’s in-house document label, Blue Engine Data.
“I’ve actually grown love these microphones,” Smith concludes, “and I really like displaying individuals these mics. I lately lent a pair to Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra pianist Dan Nimmer and he needs to get a pair for himself. These mics are clear, clear and pure, giving me the sound I need when miking the orchestra.”
Jazz at Lincoln Heart:https://jazz.org/
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