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kylen
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 Posted - Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:00 pm
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Well most of us here in America are all BBQing, watching the fireworks, having a [cold] beer, and dumping tea in the river.
If we're not at a festival somewhere with our families we're at home doing it up and watching the celebrations on TV.
On the A&E channel Chris Noth (Law and Order Fame) is hosting the Nashville celebration complete with rock music, country folks, and a huge symphony orchestra.
The close ups show a very cool and intense orchestra. Everyone of them has ear monitors and a close mic either mounted to their fiddles (this is Nashville remember! ) or stuffed up the bell of their horn. There's hundreds of channels (must be, well maybe 100), and ambient mics too. There's house mixers, stage mixers, TV feeds, every possible modern convenience - it should sound Great!
...only it's comin thru a TV that's chokin, pumpin and breathin every chance it gets like it never heard that many sounds on the same wire before. I've got a modest home theater setup that should be suffucient. But as they say - the weakest link - may just come down to the TV feed guy who didn't get the limiter release settings right!
Anyway maybe some of you broadcast folks know what went wrong. It should have sounded great. Maybe they can remix it on CEP!:D
Happy 4th 
kylen
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SteveG
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted - Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:42 am
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I honestly don't see why it should sound great at all. If you went and shoved your ear where all these mics were, you'd probably realise why!
If you want a great sound from a Symphony Orchestra, you need to be micing it from near where the conductor was getting the atmospheric sound that he wanted. The instruments are designed to be heard together as an acoustic blend, not as a mixed bunch of individual instruments. I don't see how it could possibly sound good at all miced like this - it's just wrong. Yeah, you might need a limiter to catch the odd peak, even with a stereo pair, but this sounds more like a couple of accidents that have found somewhere to happen - one with hundreds of microphones, one with a compressor.
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kylen
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Posted - Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:31 am
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I dig! The things we let [misused] technology put us through to capture something that sounded great live, but oh on that playback it sometimes requires a mass hypnosis preset...
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