Went to a protest.
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| Pope Marc delivering a beatitude. |
So first up we had a reading for Richard Byrne's Beauty Doesn't Reach Me. Yeah, some real long-hair stuff about Ernst Toller. That was two weeks ago on the Lower East Side.
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| Richard Byrne layin' out the good word. |
It was good and educational. Buy the book! And check out this podcast that Richard is on.
Then we had a screening of The Red Flag of the Future at the 14th Street Y.
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| The house at the 14th Street Y. Small number of seats but huge ceiling and enormous tech row at top. |
We want to do another slightly different mix and a couple very minor tweaks to picture on the opera.
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| Clear signage. |
I was amused by this subway sign.
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| Realizations, decisions, and actions. |
Saw the Yale Symphony. They have two orchestras at Yale, the Symphony and the Philharmonic. The symphony, although it is the "lower" orchestra, is really quite good. The wind section really played like a section. That's not what you get for most student orchestras. I was impressed.
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| The hall the Yale Symphony plays in is very reverberant and live. I like it. |
Then I saw a rehearsal of the Berkshire Symphony. They're basically the Williams College orchestra.
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| Berkshire Symphony. |
Then it was time for some rock and roll. I mixed The Beaks as they were doing an all-day 100-song marathon of The Beatles. I'm using Multiplay to do playback of sound cues. The program is basically a Q-lab but for PC and it's free. So far it works extraordinarily well. Does it do everything Q-Lab can? No. But for most shows it's more than perfect.
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| I need more computers. That's Marc Schmied on the Hofner bass. |
I had a router so my iPad could talk to the mixer. The leftmost computer is running Reaper just so I can experiment with playback.
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| My very hostile Allen&Heath SQ5 amuses me immensely. |
Now we're going to DC to record the actors for the Congressman Davy podcast.
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| Top down, U47 clones and power supplies. |
So I'm trying to figure out how we're recording.
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There's a bunch of large-diaphragm mics. Actually the middle one is a Blue ribbon microphone.
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At first I thought we'd do LDC's. But four outboard power supplies? Also, I don't really know it'll sound like dialog on a stage. We're going for a theater-like sound. So small-diaphragm is the way we're going.
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| Instead of large-diaphragm mics, a bunch of small-diaphragm mics. |
Anyway, that's what's going on.
