Percussion studio live stream
The aim was to produce a CD for the composer, with tentative plans to also make it available to the schools whose pupils took part, any proceeds to go to charity. Within this restriction, we needed to build in as much flexibility as possible, to allow us to create a good mix at the end of the project. The HD24, as its name implies, does offer 24 tracks, but the mixer we were taking with us could only accommodate 16, so that's what we had to work with. The performance venue was Malvern's Forum theatre, which (since its extensive redesign) has a remarkably dead acoustic, despite its cavernous size! Our job was to commit as faithful a representation of the performance as possible to 16 tracks of an Alesis HD24 recorder, using a selection of mics and direct injection.
PERCUSSION STUDIO LIVE STREAM PLUS
It was around 35 minutes long and was to be performed by a large youth choir made up of choristers from six schools, plus five professional and semi-pro soloists supported by a small wind and brass orchestra, two electric pianos and a generous percussion section, including a drum kit. The performance we had to record was of a modern choral composition entitled Rites of Passage, written and conducted by Richard Chew.
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The job becomes more difficult, however, when you're recording a mixture of acoustic and amplified instruments, some of which are amplified separately via the house PA - which exactly describes a recording project SOS Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns and I undertook recently. Assuming these criteria are met, ensembles of any size - from orchestras down to duos - can be recorded using a simple stereo mic technique, adjusting the mic-to-performer distance to obtain the correct balance of direct to reverberant sound. When recording an all-acoustic ensemble, the job is much easier if the instruments achieve a reasonable natural balance and if the room acoustics are sympathetic to the music.
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The story of a multi-miked location recording session, from pre-concert setup to the post-recording software-controlled mixdown. To the left and the right are the BLUE Baby Bottles, with the SE1 in the centre. Here it's possible to see the five SM58s feeding the PA set up in front of the soloists (front row of choir), plus the three condensers that were capturing their performance for the recording.