And today in Humans Are Terrible, as this video started going viral, someone reported it as somehow inappropriate or dangerous to children, I forget the exact accusation, obviously false but it got taken down for a while. Back up now AFAIK.
@noahdjango My wife is a professional harpist, and two of her harps have built-in pickups with 1/4" outputs. She also has an adhesive pickup that you can stick inside and move onto any harp, cheap but not fantastic quality. She’s considered buying an electric harp, or an electroacoustic harp, but has not done so yet.
@gabe_oakes You can, but recording a harp is surprisingly difficult. They’re very resonant, and tend to clip even at pretty low volume on most mics my wife has tried (over a dozen at this point). Mics that work great for speaking, singing, guitar, and piano can fail miserably at harp. On one of her harps there’s a specific note she has trouble recording - I think a B flat. Even her best mic has trouble with that one under most circumstances. If she ever needed a really high quality recording, she might need to re-tune the whole harp to a different middle A to make it off-resonance.
Edit to add: Gabe, if you’ve ever done harp recording, and have recommendations for mics that don’t have this problem, or other ways of fixing it, I’d be very interested to know what they are.
