{"id":79,"date":"2011-07-09T23:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T06:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furi.us\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-08-17T01:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T08:36:47","slug":"sorcerer-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furi.us\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Sorcerer recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recorded The Sorcerer sitzprobe for Lyric. This is so that we could have a recording for next time we do a Sorcerer promo where we own any rights.<\/p>\n

Since “pro”-audio is great fun, I had picked up a few new microphones to play with. A pair of M-Audio Pulsar II mics (used in X-Y for the orchestra), a pair of Karma K10 mics (used in X-Y for the chorus), and a Behringer C1 side-address mic for various leads. These all fed in to an SM-Pro pre-amp (modded with improved op amps and new input capacitors) and the E-Mu Darwin recorder.<\/p>\n

Overall, I was happy with the sound recorded (and pleasantly satisfied with the $40 C1). However, the performance was patchy. The K10s displayed in interesting feature: they emit perfect 1\/f noise (normal) all the way down to 3Hz (curious). Also, one of the K10s was significantly noisier than the other. The 3Hz was a brief problem in mixing, because I kept hearing a high ringing tone in the 5 to 10kHz range. But after trying first to filter it out (unsuccessful) and then find it in spectral analysis in a quiet section (also unsuccessful) I figured it out. The DACs in my HDMI monitor can’t cope with low frequency! Putting in a 2nd order high pass filter at 20Hz did the trick. Weird.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> See the whole post for download options.<\/p>\n

Link to Dropbox folder: http:\/\/db.tt\/lhEsHUq<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re not running a Dropbox client (like me) then the following direct download links will probably be more useful.<\/p>\n