Panache Quartet has just reached an endorsement agreement with Bruce Bartett at Bartlett Audio in Weaverville NC. Now all four fiddlers – Donna Hébert, Jane Rothfield, Andrea Beaton and Véronique Plasse – will wear matching Bartlett fiddle mikes. Bartlett’s fiddle and banjo microphones will amplify Panache Quartet performances, including their upcoming showcases at the New England Regional Folk Alliance and concerts at Old Songs and the Celtic Society of Southern MD.
Mike installs easily, securely and quickly each time needed, requires no fixed mount, is almost invisible, and adds no extra weight to the instrument.
These mikes, built specifically for stringed instruments, require no permanent attachment to the instrument and no external pre-amp. [The pre-amp is built into the XLR output]. They also have “the best frequency response and true-to-original sound of any on-fiddle mic I’ve ever used,” says Panache’s veteran concert and dance fiddler Donna Hébert, who can remember back forty years when fiddlers slapped a contact mic on their fiddleback with an elastic band. “In the world of miking fiddles, we have definitely come a very long way!” Donna first used a Bartlett on tour with guitarist Max Cohen in 2012 and has continued to prefer it. “The sound is amazing. Most on-board mikes are clunky, wiggle around too much, amplify every breath, and many change the timbre of the fiddle’s sound. I LIKE the way my fiddle sounds and the Bartlett mikes it with no attendant fuss. They just amplify it beautifully.”
Recently Donna and Panache member Jane Rothfield played two nights of contradances at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, relying on their Bartletts and Alison Goessling from Klondike Sound. The sound was so true and clear that they were even able to hear themselves and the third fiddler (also kitted out with her own Bartlett!), over the rock and roar of the main stage down the hill!
If you’re a string player and you want to know more about how these mikes make your job easier on stage, please contact Bruce Bartlett at info@bartlettaudio.com. And tell him Panache sent you!
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