Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

John Neptune is probably the most frequent performer using mics attached to the shakuhachi. He uses a Countryman mic http://www.countryman.com/ James Nyoraku Schlefer also uses one and says he is very pleased.

I think they use an older model. If you look through their products they have both headset and clip on versions and offer hard wired or wireless versions.

The mini Swan you mentioned is much less expensive and offers only hard wired.

The Countryman can operate using conventional phantom power, whereas the Mini Swan needs a power supply.

Not having used either, I would still tend to think on basis of specs that the Countryman might be the way to go.

Personally I play into a conventional mic, in a nice room I use a condenser and if the situation is hairy I use a dynamic like Shure SM 57 or 58.

Yu-Jin wrote:

Tairaku wrote:

in a nice room I use a condenser

What kind of condenser?
Have you tried AKG C1000S?

I have found that you get the best results in a studio when you let the engineer use whatever he is familiar and comfortable with. That depends on what engineer I use. Could be AKG 414, CAD, Neumann U-87, U-47, whatever. They're all good. I haven't tried AKG C1000S.

At my own home studio I used a matched pair of Curtis Tech tube mics and a Curtis Tech 8 channel preamp running into either an ADAT or Pro-tools.

Yu-Jin wrote:

Tairaku wrote:

in a nice room I use a condenser

What kind of condenser?
Have you tried AKG C1000S?

I have two of them - have had them for years.  They are a very good, reasonably priced condenser.  Good for stringed instruments and flutes of all kinds.

Last edited by jumbuk (2006-01-22 17:25:36)