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Nate Najar
December 8th 13, 03:27 AM
I played a wonderful event the other night and I also handled the sound reinforcement. It was in a small non profit arts space- for all intents and purposes it's a reflective boomy box. Polished slab floor, Sheetrock walls and open joist ceiling. There were about 170 seats, over 200 in attendance, standing room only. 3 acts, first a piano/bass/flute trio, then a modern jazz piano trio with a fine vocalist and finally my trio which is classical guitar, bass and drums. The event was honoring my bass player who recently turned 80.

They hung soft goods behind the bandstand and that combined with the full house of people tamed the boom and reflections and the overall sound of the room was rather good at performance time. The space owns a very decent Steinway upright piano in good shape and it was tuned that morning. I had the cover off the piano for the show to allow it to project better into the room.

The space has a pair of tannoy v8 dual concentric PA speakers that I donated a few years ago- they are hanging in the joists in a good location.

So I miked the piano with a pair of dpa 4061 on magnet mounts on either side of the soundboard. Sony ECM 50 on the double bass. Re15 on my classical guitar (and a Redeye DI for my pickup) and another re15 for the flute/vocalist/emcee duties.

As I played the last set but had the chance to hear most of the evening otherwise, I was very pleased with how natural everything sounded. It was really some of the finest sound reinforcement I had heard for music like that in a long time.

And I've learned most of this sort of thing from you guys here... I only wish I had recorded the event too, but that would have been too much on my plate.

hank alrich
December 8th 13, 07:02 AM
Nate Najar > wrote:

> I played a wonderful event the other night and I also handled the sound
>reinforcement. It was in a small non profit arts space- for all
>intents and purposes it's a reflective boomy box. Polished slab floor,
>Sheetrock walls and open joist ceiling. There were about 170 seats,
>over 200 in attendance, standing room only. 3 acts, first a
>piano/bass/flute trio, then a modern jazz piano trio with a fine
>vocalist and finally my trio which is classical guitar, bass and drums.
>The event was honoring my bass player who recently turned 80.
>
> They hung soft goods behind the bandstand and that combined with the full
>house of people tamed the boom and reflections and the overall sound of
>the room was rather good at performance time. The space owns a very
>decent Steinway upright piano in good shape and it was tuned that
>morning. I had the cover off the piano for the show to allow it to
>project better into the room.
>
> The space has a pair of tannoy v8 dual concentric PA speakers that I
>donated a few years ago- they are hanging in the joists in a good
>location.
>
> So I miked the piano with a pair of dpa 4061 on magnet mounts on either
>side of the soundboard. Sony ECM 50 on the double bass. Re15 on my
>classical guitar (and a Redeye DI for my pickup) and another re15 for
>the flute/vocalist/emcee duties.
>
> As I played the last set but had the chance to hear most of the evening
>otherwise, I was very pleased with how natural everything sounded. It
>was really some of the finest sound reinforcement I had heard for music
>like that in a long time.
>
> And I've learned most of this sort of thing from you guys here... I only
>wish I had recorded the event too, but that would have been too much on
>my plate.
>

Terrific, Nate. Congrats. You have paid attention all along and it pays
off in the long run. Throw in your fine ears and you got it.

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