Instrumental Orchestra Band

I use this stand (one of five) for overhead miking various orchestral instruments and sections. It is tall enough, with the boom extended, to cover the high winds and strings in a band/orchestra, to supplement a center stereo pair and give better balance with the back row brass and winds. It is skinny enough to be unobtrusive placed in the middle of an orchestra or band. I found a suitable swivel at B&H to hang a stereo bar from a horizontal boom. A boom helps keep the microphones out of the way for video. If you don't need a 9' reach, the 40 reach of this stand might do the trick.

I purchased these for use as microphone stands for recording band and orchestra ensembles. They are fantastic, and the locking feature for transport makes it so nice to take them in and out of gigs.

I have used this mic for the first time for an on-location recording of a choir, band, and orchestra. I can verfy all the claims that Royer Labs make for this product. The sound is gorgeous - silky smooth and so accurate. The stereo image and location of individual instruments therein is absolutely uncanny! It is every bit as good as any recording I have ever heard from major studios. The crossed figure eight pickup pattern gives great ambience to the sound - you just have to hope your audience is quiet if you are recording a live performance (an acceptable tradeoff, I think). And, of course, being a ribbon microphone, you have to be sooo careful with it. It comes in a double case with a very well designed isolation mount included, a 25' 5 conductor cable, and a suitable 5 pin to two 3 pin XLR adaptor - all you need.

Great little addition to any instrumental setting

If you're at all interested in The Orchestra just get it when it goes on sale. It's awesome.

If you work in the orchestra field, these reverbs are mandatory.

The SM57 is an instrumental mic but it still works great as an interview mic as well for videos.

This device used by professional flute musician, she work in orchestra.

great amp! used for church orchestra. no problems. great quality.

record symphony orchestra and chamber music