Difficult situation to mike?

[Gray_Wolf]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/khQN5ylb3H0?rel=0

[John Williamson]

On 23/12/2016 10:14, gray_wolf wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/embed/khQN5ylb3H0?rel=0

The only real problems would have been organising the radio channels in
a busy urban area and hiding the transmitters on the performers. It's
the kind of job any movie sound guy worth his pay could do in his sleep.

The main problem in the mixdown would be keeping the video and audio in
sync between the camera changes.

Nice clip, though.

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[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
gray_wolf > wrote:
>https://www.youtube.com/embed/khQN5ylb3H0?rel=0


Notice how the room ambience changes totally at 0:45 where they go
from the short shotgun on the camera to the mix made entirely of spot
mikes and DI feeds.

You can hear the sound of the huge echoey room as the woman in red hits
those drumsticks together... but then it fades to a totally dead mix
that could have been made in a studio somewhere.

You'll notice the wierd shrieky tone of the clarinet (and total lack of
valve sounds) because it's miked right above the bell. Bass is direct,
guitar is direct.

When the brass comes in at 3:16 you can hear the room ambience change
as they open up all those spots on the horns.

The fiddles aren't spotted as tightly, so you can hear the tone of the
drums change dramatically when the fiddles are pulled up.

I wouldn't say this was all that difficult a situation to mike for recording,
certainly it's much easier than getting decent PA in there. But the totally
dead sound is in conflict with the image. Union Station should sound like
Union Station.

Former regular poster Karl Winkler used to mix these guys. He was also big
on spots.
--scott

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