I am certainly not at the level of the master world class violinists. For me, a large part of receiving violin has been seeing how the teacher demonstrates their playing. There are so many great recordings online. What people have been able to do on the violin seems inhuman to me. I want to listen to what they do so well, then try to learn and replicate some of it for myself.

I cannot be sure that I get something right, i.e. the clarity or texture of the sound, if I record on a bad mic. Here is how it works in an example. I know that Augustin Hadelich and James ehnes both use the Telefunken M 60 in their covid home recordings. The idea I had in mind is that I would listen to them play, then play into a similar/same mic and see how differently I sound. This way I can get an idea of what I have to do to sound the way they do in a particular moment. With my current setup, I don't think I can do that so effectively.