Julius Reder Carlson - 1967 Fleta

Julius Reder Carlson was back last week to record Anibal Arias’ arrangement of La Bordona, the Tango by Emilio Balcarce, on an amazing 1967 Ignacio Fleta . We were looking for a good piece to try out some mics sent to me by the folks at Telefunken-Elektroakustik – the ELA M260 tube mic system (which appeals to me in part because of the interchangeable capsule system and the ability to use AKG and BLUE capsules, though for this recording we stuck with the supplied cardioid capsule). I’ll write more about these mics soon, but for now I’ll let you all be the judge.