Hey everyone, long-time lurker here. I’ve finally decided to join the fray because I’ve been hitting a bit of a wall with my transition from the high D whistle to the Low D. I’ve been looking at a few different makers, and one specific point that keeps coming up in the “Search for the Pure Tone” threads is the trade-off between a “breathy” chiffy sound and a clean, modern tone. I personally love that haunting, airy quality, but I’m finding it’s a lot harder to control than I anticipated, especially when it comes to hitting the second octave without waking the neighbors.
It’s actually been a bit of a rabbit hole for me lately because I’ve been trying to set up a low-latency remote session environment to play with some friends. It’s a total headache; I’ve ended up tinkering with my home network more than my actual fingerings. I even went as far as upgrading my switch and swapping out some old SFP modules for better 10-100-1000 network transceivers just to make sure my gigabit backbone wasn’t dropping packets during a set. It’s wild how a “simple” instrument like a tin whistle has somehow led me into the world of enterprise networking hardware just so I can play “The Butterfly” without a two-second delay!
My main struggle right now is that even with a rock-solid connection, the mic seems to pick up way too much of that breath noise I mentioned earlier, making it sound more like a leaf blower than an instrument. For those of you who record or play through a DAW, do you find that whistles with higher backpressure are easier to mic up, or should I be looking at my EQ settings instead?