On Friday, July 5, 2019 at 8:53:35 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey wrote:
John Williamson wrote:
On 05/07/2019 09:13, geoff wrote:
On 5/07/2019 7:02 PM, John Williamson wrote:
At the moment, my proposed "studio" has (Albeit not too comfy
yet)seating for a hundred or so, so that may be of use.
Hard pews ?
I can hire out cushions. Grin
I'll get some decent padding on them. The current stuff has squished
itself down to an inch or two.
It's not necessarily a bad thing.... it will greatly extend your reverb
time and make for a much brighter reverb, compared with having people in
the seats (and people will absorb far more than an equivalent area of
padding too). But that can be useful, as long as it doesn't create slap
echo or flutter echo.
Good rooms come in all sorts... some are dull, some are bright, some are
dead, some are very live, but they are all useful for something.
A good studio has a variety of different acoustics, or a hall where the
acoustics can be controlled to make a dead but bright room, or a live but
dark room or any other combination.
The only thing all of these good rooms have in common is that they do not
have slap echo, flutter echo, or a lot of short reflections.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
The church where we recorded the madrigals, St. John's Church a mile or so outside of the beltway on the west side of Baltimore, in Ellicott City, used to be shorter. In the main web site picture, you can see by the roof how the length was doubled at some point.
http://stjohnsec.org/
The organist and I were talking one day about recording her. The keyboard and pipes are upstairs in the front of the church, at the opposite end of the building from the altar. I asked her to play while I found a sweet spot. The sound was horrible as I began walking from the altar to the front of the church where the pipes were.
I was getting the direct sound of the pipes plus the slap back from the altar and chancery. I kept walking towards the front and when I reached the mid point, the direct sound of the pipes was loud enough to overwhelm the slap back.
I stopped there and told her what I had experienced. She said that's where the altar used to be before the church was added on to.