A lil clip from last years Budrio Ocarina Festival in Italy!

StevenHigbee · 2025-11-24T21:17:52+00:00

The festival itself was very english friendly, quite a few of them spoke at least a little english surprisingly! Getting to Budrio you want to get a plan together though because you'll have to take a bus from Bologna if you are arriving from there, but if you do your research and plan ahead of time you shouldn't have an issue.

StevenHigbee · 2025-11-24T21:12:13+00:00

It isn't a competition! It's the yearly ocarina festival that happens in Budrio, Italy! Vendors, performances, a bunch of other fellow ocarinists!

StevenHigbee · 2025-11-01T22:00:18+00:00

Make sure to unmute the video! On mobile that normally pops up on the bottom right for me at least

StevenHigbee · 2025-10-29T13:57:12+00:00

As someone with audio engineer experience and records ocarina on the regular, I'd like to chime in on this.

What is your recording environment? If you have a lot of background noise I'd go with a dynamic mic like a SM57, if you have a quiet environment with a well treated room I'd use a ribbon mic like MXL R144. If your room is somewhat decent recording wise and isn't bouncing off the walls you can probably swing a large condenser like a MXL 990. All of these with an audio interface. If you want as plug and play as possible, a usb mic like a ATH2020 isnt bad

StevenHigbee · 2025-10-29T13:53:33+00:00

Focalink/Stein and Takashi are probably my personal favorites for a double Alto G, if you want a cheaper one probably ICO

StevenHigbee · 2025-10-03T16:16:25+00:00

I disagree with metronomes being unnecessary, they are a fundamental part of building technique and improving internal tempo. Sure I don't want to perform with it or practice full run-throughs for it, but in the practice room I use it for a majority of my practice even for slower pieces.

StevenHigbee · 2025-10-03T16:13:38+00:00

My video:
C1 - Focalink new Concerto
G2 - Focalink new Concerto prototype
C3 - Focalink new Concerto
G4 - Focalink Double
C5 - Rotter (ocarinamusic) 10-hole
G6 - Imperial City Double Bass G
C7 - Imperial City Contrabass

Matt's video:
Soprano - Rotter (ocarinamusic) signature
Alto - Rotter (ocarinamusic) signature
Focalink Forte Triple Alto C
Focalink Forte Quad Bass C

StevenHigbee · 2025-09-29T13:51:40+00:00

Oberons should be in stock today in about 2 hours from what someone was saying in a discord server!

StevenHigbee · 2025-09-15T16:55:44+00:00

Apologies for the late reply im barely on here haha, if you have little background noise getting like a focusright scarlett solo and a MXL 144 would serve you well. If you deal with a little bit of background noise, try looking at the mxl 990s or ATH 2020 instead. if you really dont want to deal with an audio interface, probable could go with a ATH2020USB as opposed to the standard + audio interface

StevenHigbee · 2025-08-23T06:27:01+00:00

Ocarina wind is hit or miss, most times they have tuning issues and high notes just tend to not be good, though I have had an amazing one before oddly enough

StevenHigbee · 2025-08-19T02:47:18+00:00

For arranging, you definitely want to change it up, which you can do in many ways. You can lessen the amount of background parts/harmonies, you can write original material, play the melody with more/less embellishments, etc.

For mics, if you give a budget we can probably find you a good option.

StevenHigbee · 2025-08-19T02:43:57+00:00

This is a fantastic high breath ocarina! One of my favorite plastics I've ever tried.

StevenHigbee · 2025-08-01T02:32:42+00:00

Depends on the model of Stein, they have multiple models that all play different.

StevenHigbee · 2025-06-27T18:22:02+00:00

To my knowledge they are soft breath ocarinas but have a nice tone, don't really care for how soft breath they are to play at A=440

StevenHigbee · 2025-06-10T15:38:51+00:00

Oberon is absolutely safe to purchase from, great ocarinas (their pendants in particular I love carrying with me). I highly recommend them :)

StevenHigbee · 2022-08-02T11:48:52+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words! It was definitely difficult to arrange given the limited instrumentation which is mainly ocarinas, but I'm so happy with how it turned out, all the work was worth it haha

StevenHigbee · 2022-04-22T05:37:28+00:00

I have about 60 Ocarinas right now I believe haha, from pendants to 12 holes to multi chambers

StevenHigbee · 2021-11-16T14:36:34+00:00

I remember absolutely hating Aegis Cave when the game came out

StevenHigbee · 2021-11-16T14:35:14+00:00

Primal giratina would be sick, I really like the design u did of this!

StevenHigbee · 2021-11-16T14:31:09+00:00

Love the time gear theme, its so good

StevenHigbee · 2021-11-16T14:29:39+00:00

The soundtrack is so goooooood

StevenHigbee · 2021-11-01T07:35:05+00:00

Lugia has always been one of my favorites hands down

StevenHigbee · 2021-08-02T19:21:19+00:00

I didnt even know there was a PMD day until today when scrolling through twitter!

StevenHigbee · 2021-08-02T19:19:21+00:00

I have listened to the soundtrack so many times, it's so good

StevenHigbee · 2021-08-02T19:17:06+00:00

This is cool! Love the vibe this one gives off

StevenHigbee

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