Sheet music @ tomplay.com/
I've been doing outdoor sax performances for Halloween to add to our enthusiastic decoration setup, and naturally I had to do Thriller. It's fun to get the kids and their parents dancing.
I am surprised how well my trusty SM57 worked in picking up the sax and not the background noise. It's not as nice as a ribbon mic and definitely requires some EQ, but I like that this is the actual recorded audio from that night without any overdubbing.
This is a really cool small busking set up I have been working on that I feel works really well. I have a mic plugged into a Lexicon Lambda USB audio interface (on a shelf attached to my mic stand), which plugs into a Microsoft Surface tablet running Reaper. Reaper has the sheet music video + backing track (in this case from Tomplay at tomplay.com/ ), and then I have a separate track recording the mic. The mic track has realtime monitoring on so that I also get realtime reverb as I'm playing. So you get decent quality recording plus any VST effects you want live, which is a lot of fun!
Sax setup is a Theo Wanne Lakshmi 7* with #3 Boston Sax Shop black box reeds, although like most sax players, I'm often messing with different combinations in the never ending pursuit of a better sound. Cheers!