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EMT 140
213 years
by swillia9
in Documentation
The EMT 140 should be switched on and off on the unit itself. You will need to switch the power switches on both sub-assemblies.
At present, reverb time is not adjustable. I still need to un-seize the motor and install the remote, or manufacture a hand crank for manual decay-time adjustment.
Live postgraduate concert recording
513 years
by swillia9
in Reid Studio Project
Jessica Aslan, Lauren Hayes and Christos Michalakos performed solo pieces and a group improvisation on 9th of July. This was a great chance to test the new studio under live concert recording conditions.
Mics used:
Schoeps omni and fig-8 as mid/side
DPA 4006 omni spaced pair
Tandy/Realistic PZM pair
DI from mixer
This was the first time I had used PZMs and I put them on the floor spaced about 2.5m apart in front of the drumkit. AMAZING!!!! Mixed with a bit of the Schoeps mid/side pair and put through the Vertigo (only for monitoring) I managed to get by far the best drum sound I’ve ever got. Even the toms sounded good!
So, I definitely had the best seat in the house for this gig, and getting the DI feed from the laptop outputs enabled the performers to get all the right parts to make some high quality mixes which, no doubt, they will post here soon.
Live Music Now session
013 years
by swillia9
in Reid Studio Project
On 25th of June I booked in Sax Ecosse, Flutes En Route, and Michael Haywood and Laura Grime for a full test run of the studio as part of a music education project run by Live Music Now. This session required foldback on headphones, talkback, and 8 channels of microphone recording of instruments as grand piano, fiddle, baritone sax, boom-whackers and voices.
It was a useful way of testing out the foldback paths and the general usability of the patchbay. This had taken Kevin Hay, Owen Green and myself a vast amount of time and effort to plan and required soldering almost 1500 connections. As you can imagine, it was to my great satisfaction that the session went very smoothly indeed with only a couple of minor hiccups, both stemming from my unfamiliarity with the desk rather than any errors in the wiring.
For future notice, the HPF on the SSL mic input channels is part of the EQ. There may be a way to use it separately but I didn’t find it in this session.
The Schoeps sounded lovely, especially the figure-of-eights, and judicious use of the screens enabled me to get some surprisingly dry results for some of the instruments, giving the capability of keeping the natural reverb but having it attenuated at the same time.
All in all this was a really rewarding session to inaugurate the studio, especially given the strong departmental representation within the Music In The Community field.
Audio clips will be posted soonish.
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