The Wizard's Conservatory for the Musickal Arts

A Behringer B-2 Pro and B-5 capture the resonance of the drum
and the sounds of the warm spring day outside The Friendly House.
These are condenser microphones, and more sensitive than the Shure
SM57s first used. Pointed at the rear, the B5 hears the music in the drum.

The wizard didn't believe that could be recorded. Can you hear it?
It sounds like a Jamaican steel drum to him.

The wizard's studio has grown from an old Panasonic cassette deck to
a Tascam PortaStudio02MKII cassette four-track recorder to a Fostex
VF80EX eight-track digital recorder ("studio in a box"). Most of the old
gear was outgrown, and did not break or wear out. The Tascam is very
useful to capture fast-moving events or see how something sounds, like
frogs peeping, especially when they are played backwards. Weird.