Fiddle Pre-set For Profex Ii

[Craig Allen]

DOES ANY HAVE A PRESET THAT THEY LIKE?? IF SO, WHAT IS IT??
I HAVE A FENDER ELECTRIC VIOLIN..
THANX
CRAIG

[Johnny Thomasson]

Craig,

I don't have and never tried a Pro-Fex. But I had two different Fender electric fiddles, and after trying everything I could think of, nothing would make them sound good, for either recording or live performance. If you're recording, you'll do best to play a good sounding fiddle, mic'd with a decent condenser mic run through a decent preamp.

My gigging fiddle has an LR Baggs bridge, and I use a Baggs Para Acoustic DI Studio Preamp. While it sounds really good live, it loses something going direct to a digital recorder. I can smother the track with chorus and reverb and get it to sound almost passable, but I like a natural fiddle sound much better. I record dry and add a touch of verb in the mixdown, and that's it.

In my experience, electric fiddles of any kind going direct just don't cut it for recording. Just MHO, YMMV and all that. Maybe your Pro-Fex will make the difference. You might try chorus and reverb, maybe some delay; possibly that might help take some of the rough edge off.

Hope this helps some.

[Craig Allen]

THANX YA'LL.. I DRIVE A TRUCK OVER THE ROAD, AND CAN'T ALWAYS RESPOND TO POSTS.. I'LL JUST HAVE TO MONKEY WITH IT WHEN I HAVE THE TIME.. AGAIN, THANX.

CRAIG

[jolynyk]

Craig,

I don't have and never tried a Pro-Fex. But I had two different Fender electric fiddles, and after trying everything I could think of, nothing would make them sound good, for either recording or live performance. If you're recording, you'll do best to play a good sounding fiddle, mic'd with a decent condenser mic run through a decent preamp.

My gigging fiddle has an LR Baggs bridge, and I use a Baggs Para Acoustic DI Studio Preamp. While it sounds really good live, it loses something going direct to a digital recorder. I can smother the track with chorus and reverb and get it to sound almost passable, but I like a natural fiddle sound much better. I record dry and add a touch of verb in the mixdown, and that's it.

In my experience, electric fiddles of any kind going direct just don't cut it for recording. Just MHO, YMMV and all that. Maybe your Pro-Fex will make the difference. You might try chorus and reverb, maybe some delay; possibly that might help take some of the rough edge off.



Johnny do you mic or use a pickup for live performances? I'm in the same boat. Yamaha solid body, can get by for live, but sucks in recording.
Any recommendations for a decent condensor mic??

Hope this helps some.

[Johnny Thomasson]

Johnny do you mic or use a pickup for live performances? I'm in the same boat. Yamaha solid body, can get by for live, but sucks in recording. Any recommendations for a decent condensor mic??

Sorry I didn't see your question sooner. I use a piezo type in-bridge pickup for live performance.

My gigging fiddle has an LR Baggs bridge, and I use a Baggs Para Acoustic DI Studio Preamp.

For live performance, micing is impractical unless all the other instruments are acoustic and mic'd also. Otherwise, any decent mic (for fiddle) is going to pick up too much ambient sound.

As for recommending a mic for recording fiddle, I assume that price is a major consideration (isn't it always?). The best reasonably priced mic I've tried for recording fiddle is this one:
http://www.music123.com/Audio-Technica- ... 0.Music123

Of course if you have more money to spend, there are much better mics to be had. The high end tube and ribbon mics are particularly good. A good preamp is also important. The good preamps are pricey too.