Comments | dglenn: Drowsy Day, Recorder Recording, And Memes

dglenn

Drowsy Day, Recorder Recording, And Memes

Jun 12, 2007 15:06

Despite slightly more comfortable weather (81°F/51%) I'm not having a very comfortable day. Listless, dizzy, achy -- and though I get hungry, I really don't feel like cooking, or even eatingall I want to do is drink, and I don't reall want to drink water ( Read more... )

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stori_lundi June 12 2007, 19:09:41 UTC

Craving Gatoraide? Sounds like you are down electrolytes or potassium which will make you droopy. Can you get a potassium pill or eat a banana?

dglenn June 12 2007, 19:22:17 UTC

I'll go eat the last banana and see whether that helps.

kolraashgadol June 12 2007, 19:56:53 UTC

Apparently there are a lot of us Nortons running around - I seem to have been him, also.

Miking recorders ext_41274 June 13 2007, 03:45:05 UTC

I've spent a great deal of time lamenting the fact that nobody manages to correctly mike recorders in their audio recordings, so it's excellent to hear that you've found a trick. I'd say that it's probably worth working on getting it right for live performances as well as the studio -- badly miked recorders really are quite vile compared to the real things. I dunno if you can get a cheap approximation with a wide-focus mike at some intermediate location, or if you really have to dual-mike it, but at least consider trying some more experiments in your extremely copious spare time. :-)

Re: Miking recorders dglenn June 13 2007, 13:57:51 UTC

Either a wide pattern mic at an intermediate location (which I'm willing to try in my bedroom as an experiment, but I predict would not work anywhere near as well for a recorder as it does for a guitar[*]) or a cardioid/hypercardiod mic at a farther distance (more likely to get the sound right in a studio) would be asking for trouble on stage. Unless the acoustics of the hall are very good, the farther you get from close-mic techniques, the more you risk feedback -- and we usually play outdoors or in banquet halls and gymnasia, not theatres. Also, the farther away or the wider the pickup pattern, the more bleed you'll get from other instruments -- not a problem if you're trying to area-mic the whole band, but a big problem if you're trying to use the PA to boost a soft instrument against louder ones ( ... )

Re: Miking recorders writerjanice June 13 2007, 18:43:44 UTC

Wide pattern mics on stage... bad ( ... )

Re: Miking recorders dglenn June 15 2007, 12:48:32 UTC

When a) the hall is really good to begin with, b) the amplification is subtle, c) there are no monitors, and d) the sound is "pre-balanced" perfectly by the performers, then you have an exception to the "Wide pattern mics on stage... bad" rule. But since most of aren't micing symphony orchestras in the Meyerhoff or choirs in someplace similar, I'm only noting the exception for the sake of completeness. For pretty much everything else (okay, there are some applications for area mics in theatre as well, but ...) yeah, the rule is "don't use wide pattern mics on stage," maybe with some exclamation points ( ... )

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