Greg-Drones=Ezee Tenors & Carbonfiber Canning Bass Bob-Drones-Hutcheon?=Canning Tenors & Ezee Bass Bob-Drones-197?-?=Ezee Tenors & Canning Carbon Bass DannyBoy2k-Drones-2009-?=Canning Polycarbonate Henderson Harmonic Deluxe (2nd gen.) Greg-Drones=Canning Tenors & Inverted Ezee Bass Greg-Drones Bob-Drones-197?-? Lars-Drones-1975 DannyBoy2k-Drones-2009 Ezeedrone/Canning Combo Patrick-Drones Patrick-Drones-195? Patrick-Drones-2012 Ezeedrone Patrick-Drones William-Drones-2010 Crozier Carbon Lars-Drones Bob-Drones-Hutcheon? Lars-Drones-1975 DannyBoy2k-Drones-2009 Crozier Cane Greg-Drones Lars-Drones-1975 Seth Radke-Drones-2010 William-Drones-2010 Matt-Drones-2011 Patrick-Drones-195? Canning (polycarbonate bass) Lars-Drones-Husk Bob-Drones Lars-Drones-1975-Roddick Canning (carbon bass) I have indicated, by first name, who made each recording so that you know which ones are closer comparisons as you might assume all the recordings from the same person were under similar conditions.Ī listing of bagpipe drone specifications compiled by many people can be found here. If you go comatose from the pure splendor of these recordings or piss off your wife because the non-stop bagpipe droning was just too much (let's be honest, this gets pretty tedious after a while), obviously that is not my fault. I say, a recording is worth a thousand words! We hear bagpipes in all different kinds of rooms in person (or even outdoors, no joke) and generally, as long as you realize you are sitting at home/work in front of a computer listening to some digitized form of bagpipe audio, I don't think we'll have any problems with anyone thinking that these recordings are a poor reflection of the pipes or reeds. Variability between rooms, microphones, and then even on the your end listening through whatever tiny laptop or huge studio quality speakers, will affect your ability to truly hear what these pipes sounded like. Some will rightly say that no recording can accurately capture the sound of the bagpipe, least of all homemade recordings. I use a Zoom H2 field recorder which captures raw audio.
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More than likely, the bass drone will be under-captured (not a word, I know) because its fundamental is just a hair over 100 Hz which is well into the attenuation zone of most of these products. While unlike the chanter, the drone may not overpower these microphones (called clipping), these microphones (even on an iPhone) can severely attenuate the frequencies that aren't usually associated with the human voice as they are designed to capture speaking. Do not use computer microphones, that is: web cam mics, laptop mics, etc. mp3 format using ffmpeg (libmp3lame) at 320 kbps. Recordings emailed to me in lossless formats will be re-encoded to. mp3, use at least 160 kbps and use a constant bitrate. Do not record in an auditorium there will be all kinds of re-verb which obfuscates the bare tone of your pipes.
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When making your recording, please keep some things in mind. If you would like to contribute, please email your audio file to me using the email found on my homepage (at the top in the banner). Below are mp3 recordings of great highland bagpipe drones made by various makers coupled with many of the modern drone reeds that are commercially available.