Local LA news this morning was showing taped coverage of a major fire at
International Recording in Burbank. Fire crews had been pouring water on the
facility for hours and it was still burning. There was a shot of the front of
the studio, with water pouring out like a waterfall down the front steps. They
said an explosion blew the roof off the building, and debris was thrown half a
block away. No one is believed to have been injured as the building was
thought to be empty at the time the fire started. The facility looked to be
quite large from the exterior shots.

Ken MacGregor wrote:

Local LA news this morning was showing taped coverage of a major fire at
International Recording in Burbank. Fire crews had been pouring water on the
facility for hours and it was still burning. There was a shot of the front of
the studio, with water pouring out like a waterfall down the front steps. They
said an explosion blew the roof off the building, and debris was thrown half a
block away. No one is believed to have been injured as the building was
thought to be empty at the time the fire started. The facility looked to be
quite large from the exterior shots.

Well ****. Hope they had their insurance up to date. Gas leak?

--Dale

They're a film post facility.. with a Euphonix digital console I believe.

Rail
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Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
http://www.railjonrogut.com


"Ken MacGregor" wrote in message
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Local LA news this morning was showing taped coverage of a major fire at
International Recording in Burbank. Fire crews had been pouring water on
the
facility for hours and it was still burning. There was a shot of the front
of
the studio, with water pouring out like a waterfall down the front steps.
They
said an explosion blew the roof off the building, and debris was thrown
half a
block away. No one is believed to have been injured as the building was
thought to be empty at the time the fire started. The facility looked to
be
quite large from the exterior shots.

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done some
pretty big stuff.

--Ben

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Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

Please remove "Nospam" from address for replies

"Rail Jon Rogut" wrote in message
k.net...
They're a film post facility.. with a Euphonix digital console I believe.

Rail
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Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
http://www.railjonrogut.com

Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done some
pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

--
ha

"hank alrich" wrote in message
.. .
Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done
some
pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

Some type of shotgun mic, I'd warrant.

Glenn D.

"Glenn Dowdy" wrote in message

"hank alrich" wrote in message
.. .
Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've
done some pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

Some type of shotgun mic, I'd warrant.

I favor cheap omnis that you sacrifice as the fire progresses. Gives you
that close up live/death sound.

;-)

I keep reading the subject and thinking "what is the best way to record a
studio fire"

Hope they had insurance.


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-Hev
Find Me He
www.michaelROBOTSspringerBEGONE.com

Hev wrote:

I keep reading the subject and thinking "what is the best way to record a
studio fire"



Me too. I keep thinking, "before the fact with a camera".

"Hev" wrote:
I keep reading the subject and thinking "what is the best way to record a
studio fire"

Close mic'ed with an AKG C1000.

-jw

Hev wrote:

I keep reading the subject and thinking "what is the best way to record a
studio fire"


How about with an MS pair like a Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 or 50, in a
Rycote Bilmp mounted onto video tape - at a safe distance?

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

ospam (WillStG) wrote in
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Hev wrote:

I keep reading the subject and thinking "what is the best way to
record a studio fire"


How about with an MS pair like a Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 or
50, in a
Rycote Bilmp mounted onto video tape - at a safe distance?

It has to be one that can take pretty hot levels.

Of course, you could DI from "water pouring out like a waterfall down the
front steps" into a streaming input.

In article mhTad.227099$MQ5.17339@attbi_s52,
"Benjamin Maas" wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done some
pretty big stuff.

--Ben

I understand that they actually saved the console, which is unbelievable
considering the amount of water pouring out of the building during the
news clip.

--
Bobby Owsinski
Surround Associates
http://www.surroundassociates.com

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:35:09 GMT, "Glenn Dowdy"
wrote:


"hank alrich" wrote in message
. ..
Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done
some
pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

Some type of shotgun mic, I'd warrant.

Is this in place of a gunshot Mic?

"hank alrich" wrote in message
.. .
Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done
some
pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?


Wonder if somebody had a meth lab going in the basement ...

geoff

Ken MacGregor wrote:

Local LA news this morning was showing taped coverage of a major fire at
International Recording in Burbank.


I hope no part of SMiLE was done there.

hank alrich wrote:

Benjamin Maas wrote:

Euphonix has them listed as System 5 users... Seems like they've done some
pretty big stuff.

What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

B&K hydrophone?

--
ha

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hank alrich wrote:
What's the best mic for recording studio fire?

B&K hydrophone?

Maybe for a forest fire? There is a very cool Electronic Musician article
about recording a *tree* with a B&K hydrophone.

http://emusician.com/daw/emusic_going_wild/

€œEver heard a tree singing?€?

Bernie Krause said they were recording bats which are up in the 47Khz
range, and they heard a steady sound that got louder as they got near the tree.
They drilled a little hole in the tree and dropped in the hydrophone, and
turns out the tree had a song it was singing - at 70Khz! Of course in order to
really hear it they had to slow it down 7 times. The B&K hydrophone is flat
from .1 hz to 20Khz, but only 3.5db down at 100hz. Don't try recording that
gig with a Porta-dat.

Interesting also that as sound travels more than 4x faster under water, in
order to do stereo micing they placed the mics 200 feet apart. Lots of great
stuff in that article.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

ospam (WillStG)
Interesting also that as sound travels more than 4x faster under water, in
order to do stereo micing they placed the mics 200 feet apart. Lots of great
stuff in that article.

This was for under water recording of course, seals and glaciers and such.
Talk about a "spaced pair"... g



Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

Talk about a "spaced pair"... g

Cheech & Chong?



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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Interesting also that as sound travels more than 4x faster under
water, in
order to do stereo micing they placed the mics 200 feet apart. Lots of
great
stuff in that article.


If you go SCUBA diving you'll notice, for the same reasons, that it's
impossible to tell where any sound is coming from. Unless your ears happen
to be 200 feet apart I guess.

WillStG wrote:

ospam (WillStG)

Interesting also that as sound travels more than 4x faster under water, in
order to do stereo micing they placed the mics 200 feet apart. Lots of great
stuff in that article.

This was for under water recording of course, seals and glaciers and such.
Talk about a "spaced pair"... g

The distance between the mics correlates with the distance to the
sources that are intended to be perceived in stereo. I recorded new
years fireworks a couple of times, here is the setup:


100 meters of building
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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' 50 meters of building
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and are window placed mics.

It was not an attempt to make a stereo recording the first time I tried
it, rather just to have a recording of mono fireworks on each side of
the building. And that indeed is what it gets to be, but it is with an
excellent stereophonic panorama of the entire city as the backdrop
including good stereo of whatever is launched into the air. And that
concludes my experience with Jecklin setups. Works fine with cardioid as
well as omni, except for the winds noise issue.

Will Miho


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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