{"id":76,"date":"2011-03-29T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furi.us\/?p=76"},"modified":"2014-08-17T01:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T08:37:02","slug":"carousel-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furi.us\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Carousel recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally volunteered to make a 30 second audio promo for <a href=\"http:\/\/lyrictheatre.org\">Lyric Theatre<\/a>&#8216;s production of&nbsp;&lsquo;Carousel&rsquo;.  Oops.<\/p>\n<p>So I dragged out my E-Mu Darwin 8-channel digital recorder (and a spare external 4GB SCSI drive) along with anything that looked like a microphone cable, connector, or something vaguely audio related and threw them in the car.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to rehearsal, I had forgotten that the Darwin&#8217;s inputs are post-pre-amp (-10dBu, where my mics are -50dBu).  Not that it would have made any difference&mdash;my mix desk is part of a rack that would need re-engineering to fit in my car.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, my Sony TCD-D7 tape recorder had also made it into my backpack; and with a large contingent of tiny connectors I managed to feed two mics through its pre-amps back to the Darwin.  I pulled a 3rd channel from a Roland feedback eliminator which had a switchable 40dB gain.  However, the sound was almost unusable from this processor (the bass had disappeared).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest surprise was that my dynamic vocal mics, with a tiny 2.7mV\/Pa, and a 20m cable run, sounded great when recording a full orchestra in a smallish band room.  Just goes to show.<\/p>\n<p>And I got a fairly decent promo, with voiceover and a splice of &ldquo;You&#8217;ll Never Walk Alone (finale)&rdquo; in the background.<\/p>\n<p>(Last week I picked up an inexpensive 8-channel microphone pre-amplifier so this set of mis-steps shouldn&#8217;t happen again.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href='http:\/\/furi.us\/wp-content\/furius\/2011\/03\/promo30-a-lb.mp3'>result<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally volunteered to make a 30 second audio promo for Lyric Theatre&#8216;s production of&nbsp;&lsquo;Carousel&rsquo;. Oops. So I dragged out my E-Mu Darwin 8-channel digital recorder (and a spare external 4GB SCSI drive) along with anything that looked like a microphone cable, connector, or something vaguely audio related and threw them in the car. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}