Joaquín Herrera chooses audio-technica microphones and headphones to train his students

The renowned school of guitar and flamenco singing Joaquín Herrera has acquired a varied set of microphones from this specialist to transmit to students the nuances of this art with the highest quality and precision.

Located in Barcelona, the school Joaquin Herrera offers personalized guitar lessons and flamenco singing, whose differential is that they are based precisely on methods that seek to adapt to the rhythm and particularities of each student – respecting their personality and encouraging their abilities- in order to develop its full potential.

With the aim of offering the highest quality and nuances of flamenco art, the school has revamped all the microphones and headphones it uses in its classes, replacing your old equipment with a selection of specialist microphones Audio-Technica, including AE5400 models, ATM710, AT4047 and AT4021.

As part of this renovation, all the headphones in the center have also been replaced by the ATH-M50x and ATH-R70x models of this company, which offer an extraordinarily accurate reference. In this sense, during class, students and teachers are connected to each other to carry out in this way a more detailed monitoring of the interpretation and evolution of each student, at the same time as this, hearing your teacher through headphones, feels more clothed and secure.

Joaquin Herrera, head of the school and teacher of singing and guitar, explains its system of work in the classroom: "We have a mixer to which we connect a series of microphones, whose number depends on the number of students, and to which we also connect the reference headphones through which we will all hear each other, both teachers and students".

This way of developing classes, allows "to create an intimate work environment that is very effective for several reasons: one is that the teacher, when listening to the student through the headphones, is able to detect with greater precision all nuances, successes and weaknesses of the student. Feeling accompanied, the student advances with safer pace and with better results. This way of teaching results in that, ultimately, the student manages to deliver the best of himself. The basis of our work philosophy can be summarized in three words: Flemish, respect and a lot of heart", Says

the microphone equipment used in the classes consists of the following models: an AE5400 (handheld capacitor); two ATM710 (handheld capacitor); one AT4047 (large diaphragm condenser) and two AT4021 (small membrane condenser).

All three handheld condenser microphones are used for voice playback, although they have different characteristics from each other, asthe frequency range, sensitivity or dynamic range. The AE5400 and ATM710 models are handheld microphones, more direct oriented, while AT4047 is a large diaphragm microphone focused on the studio and should be used on a stand with a shock mount.

the reason for working with three different microphones is that it allows you to have different alternatives that fit a wide variety of voices. As for the AT4021 microphone, thanks to its sensitivity, its wide dynamic range and its optimal response to transients is especially suitable for sounding flamenco guitars.

As for the professional headphones that connect students and teachers, the school has opted for two models ATH-M50x, for monitoring in the studio, and an open-design ATH-R70x.

Many of the classes are usually recorded, so that student and teacher can take notes and clarify concepts in subsequent auditions, in addition to being very useful for the student to study at home. At the same time, the best interpretations of the most advanced students are used as an example and are even promoted in the channels available to the school (social networks or your Youtube channel).

"We consider our teaching method, our way of working is different, it is not that of one more school -assures Joaquín Herrera-. In our classes we work fundamentally from the heart, and both students and teachers pour our soul into each song and I must say that the microphones of Audio-Technica are able to perfectly capture that 'goblin' that walks through each of the classes".

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