Reply To: Recording Violin

[Michael WitteParticipant]

Hello, everyone,

I too came across this question while browsing and although it was asked a long time ago, I share my humble experience:

If I want the violin to sound very smooth, I use a tube condenser about 1 meter away, about 30cm higher than the violinist's head and pointed towards the bridge of the violin.
If I want it to have a bit more bite (e.g. for a jagged solo in a rock-oriented song), I take a small-diaphragm condenser (Line Audio CM3) and place it directly over the bridge at a distance of about 40cm (vertically from above).

In my room, which has not been professionally acoustically optimized, I get the best results this way but room situations will have a huge impact on this.

Maybe someone can do something with this info.