Equipment List

Posted:

2 years, 12 months ago | Dec 09, 2005

Edited:

Tue, July 24, 2007

Orchestra

An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble of about 100 players with string, brass, woodwind sections, and usually percussion. Smaller groups are in the "Ensemble" category.

M.S.U. Symphony

I was the engineer for this top-level college orchestra for three years (about 19 concerts). For each concert I try different techniques utilizing most of the equipment and microphones. Recordings ranged from 2-3 microphones to a full 20-track recording.

thoughts

MSU Symphony Orchestra, MSU Jazz and Voice faculty, University Choral Ensembles and Choral Union, and MSU Children’s Choir.
Co-engineered with Jennifer Shangraw.

How was this done?
Splits of almost all the microphones on stage were made for recording and live reinforcement.  The 24-track was placed in the dressing room, and the 8-track placed stage-right.  The 8-track Digi002 recorded isolated splits of just the Professors of Jazz, while the 24-track MX2424 recorded everything else.  Reasoning was because the stage-right snake did not have enough working inputs for all the microphones, and we did not want to run an additional snake back to the dressing room.
14 Tracks on the MX
8 Tracks on the Digi002

—Blair—

location...

The Wharton Center, Great Hall

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