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Posted:

5 months ago | Apr 04, 2008

Edited:

Wed, August 06, 2008

Choir

Choral music tends to be my favorite type of music to record and listen to. There are many varying techniques depending on the room acoustics, group talent, and musical choices....I enjoy the challenge.

thoughts

I was looking forward to this concert for awhile.  It’s not often for an engineer to get a chance to record renaissance music in a truly large church performed by a professional ensemble, and I can say I was gitty the whole way.  From a recording perspective, its difficult to not to get a good recording, especially with a pair of omnis, a really quiet and pristine preamp and running clean lines.  So I had fun.

I ended up having the mic’s position in a weird, more non-traditional spot.  The only down side was not being able to get control over the ventilation system, which rumbled quite badly under the floor (a common theme in many of my blogged entries here).  I also got a more distant and reverberant sound than I think I normally like hearing, especially for a live concert (which usually means closer to the audience, and higher signal to noise ratio).  On the up-side, having to spend more time on artificially creating the natural compression from being further away from a sound source has a better musical result on a chamber recording.  I still like it!

--Blair--

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