🎵 How I Recorded This HUGE Cathedral Organ in Wales, UK

[@RobCharles1981]

I'm looking forward to hearing this Organ Richard! :-)

[@symphonyBAUHAUS]

A wonderfull result and a perfect tutorial! I'm planning to record an organ this week and couldn't appreciate your thorough instructions enough. Thank you! ❤

[@Todd1356]

I love the mic setup and the difference between the nave rear and front, then at the organ. I don’t know if your equipment can muster it, but you have a great setup for recording in Dolby Digital surround and maybe even Atmos. Can’t wait to hear the recital!

[@voxpopulivoxdei1155]

What a beast Richard… what a PHANTAAAAASTIC WICKED BEAST!!!

[@davidfletcher8558]

Can't wait for these up coming events.. It looks and sounds like a mighty fine instrument. 👍

[@adrianhockey9334]

I had the pleasure of listening to this organ at the inauguration of the Bishop of St Davids, it’s a superb instrument and it’s power was demonstrated when the organist played Vierne’s Final at the end of the ceremony.😁👍🎹

[@jerrymartin79]

Thank you so much for this tour of the current BiS rig and a talk-through of your logic. Absolutely fantastic stuff - then the absolutely EPIC editing, and delivery on top of that. Top-shelf stuff. Bravo Richard! Really looking forward to the rest of the Llandaff series!

[@craigdelaney8737]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾 Bravo! Great Work! Wonderful Sounds..! I'm Excited for the Posting!!🙏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💕

[@katy_bunnie]

I'm lucky enough to call this cathedral my local Church been going since I was a child (now go there with my children) could listen to this organ all day. I know what you mean it's huge and the sound seems to go though you its such an amazing feeling and you did a amazing job at catching the power and might of this amazing instrument love love loved it ❤🎶😊

[@dougalderdice6796]

Anxiously awaiting the video!

[@zaneclone]

A stunning organ... Sounds spectacular... Nickolson and Co did a magnificent job...

[@accousticdecay]

Excellent

[@roberrrisk177]

Wow, what a super instrument Richard.👍

[@carolynclark1724]

Beautiful cathedral Richard! Looking forward to this recital.

[@mervwhitney7229]

Thank you Richard. You put a lot of effort into this. I look forward to hearing the result.

[@PortsladeBySea]

Wow that’s a fantastic looking cathedral and organ. Andrew Caskie, Managing Director, Nicholson & Co Ltd., recently told me that the best position to sit and listen to the organ is halfway back, close to the central isle. It’s superb that his team were able to tune the organ especially for your recording, which I can’t wait to hear. I wonder what equipment Anna Lapwood uses to record her organ concerts at the Royal Albert Hall? 🎹🎶👍

[@AdrianWilsonBridders1234]

Richard, I suggest that you should play the mighty Willis organ at Liverpools Anglican cathedral, I think that you will be impressed not only by the vast size of the building, but the magnificent instrument that occupies this great space.

[@lucymason4142]

What a beautiful cathedral and organ. Thank you for sharing this.

[@ralphchou4719]

Thanks for explaining how you set up the microphones. Looking forward to hearing the results!

[@bonnieketterman6542]

Wow that organ sure has a great sound I love good organ music

[@Pipe-organ-recordings]

Don’t you find that you get capsule resonance with the larger diaphragm mics? The 130 have a lot of resonance around 90 hz, you can eq it but. Where does your spectrograph show the resonance on the tlm 170s

[@carmenfoster6912]

Seems like a wonderful behemoth of sound, can't wait to hear it! I am so impress Richard by your dedication and attention to the minutest detail! You are unbelievable!❤❤😊

[@bobbyhendley3084]

Thank you Richard! Please remind me of when we’re hearing it for real in performance.

[@caroline.balfour]

This Saturday!

[@bobbyhendley3084]

@@caroline.balfour thank you love

[@HenryEngler-ej1ps]

what a beautiful organ, thanks for sharing this with us :)

[@katrinaclinton2143]

Thank you for all that you do! Absolutely fascinating! To see what you do to establish yourself for a recording is almost overwhelming. We were mesmerized!

[@Pipe-organ-recordings]

What do you do for time delay to sync all the different mics so you are not out of phase when you combine everything.

[@roberrrisk177]

What an awesome sound!

[@generaljackson6517]

Neat production, well executed 👌

[@pauleloidelanoy]

wonderful explications ! Thanks you Richard ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@freddiefries]

Good evening Richard , nice to meet you again 😊

[@beautyinsound]

Hiya

[@martym61]

Very informative. Looking forward to upcoming programs.

[@pazzicuriosi6660]

Wow! That is great!

[@loanokaharbor8303]

Just amazing! 😊❤👍

[@williamsnoddfa]

I’ll have to send you some fantastic Welsh hymn tunes to try out!!

[@chuckwilkinson686]

If you ever get to the other side of the pond, I will introduce to a magnificent 4-89 Moeller in my church. I am sure you will enjoy having fun with it. God Bless and have a magnificent Easter holiday!!!

[@beautyinsound]

Happy Easter to you too!

[@rensswart7248]

Very interesting to see you explain the choice of microphones and their locations. These expensive Neumanns with their selectable characteristics will also change their frequency spectrum, very important if you want to record organs that normally extend down to 32 Hz or even to 16 Hz for the real 32' octave. Only omnidirectional mics can record that. I guess that's also what you should use on the 170's. And it is why I would recommend using the Neumann KM183 instead of the KM184: the latter have less sensitivity under 40 Hz.

[@paulcaswell2813]

And to think that a 30-stop Schnitger can run rings round it!

[@elizabethbrown8859]

😮

[@AndrewLumsden]

👍👏 Except you didn't show us what mic interface or what software you use 😢 Please do so. 😊

[@myke49]

From that sneaky smile on your dial you were having just too much fun. Sounded great though. I do like reeds, but as a small child in Manly (Sydney) Australia I did not like the reeds in the rather wheezy organ in Mary Immaculate in Whistler Street Manly.

[@beautyinsound]

I had a lot of fun!

[@carmenfoster6912]

Man I'm scared to put thru a virtual church ' special request ' now😂

[@beautyinsound]

Request away! 😃

[@3aasmith]

Richard,do you by chance play a musical instrument (beside the pipe organ)?

[@andyguildford]

Please delve a little further into Wales and head to St Davids!

[@beautyinsound]

I'd love to! Let's hope BIS gets invited down there! :)

[@mattleach958]

Am eglwys gadeiriol ac organ hardd yn wir! Byddwn wrth fy modd yn clywed "Land Of My Fathers" gyda chôr Cymraeg llawn yno! Nefoedd Cymraeg Pur.

[@socialite1283]

Two coincident figure of 8 microphones well positioned somewhere in the nave will be fine. The instrument being recorded is the whole building.

[@beautyinsound]

Cool

[@jimshaw899]

Well thought out. There is no best mic setup; just very good, not so good, and not good at all. Just as there's no best seat in the audience. What sort of reverb decay time does this space provide? Without trying too hard, I would guess about 4 seconds. That aids in clarity, I think. You did well with the resulting mix. It was quite the effort.

[@gerardbaratin3805]

Dommage que les commentaires ne soient pas traduits en français, la technologie de l'instrument m'intéresse, et là on a une pièce unice de la facture des orgues

[@beautyinsound]

Do you mean the comments in the video? You can watch them in French by clicking on the settings button on the video 😊

[@Knappa22]

Delusions of grandeur putting an organ like that in a church that size. I’ve heard it at full tilt and it sounds ghastly, blaring forth into the tiny nave. There is no space and no reverb to smoothe over the brashness. Horrid. It isn’t the organ’s fault really. It’s just in the wrong place. The Harrison organ in St Davids cathedral suffers the same problem to a lesser degree.