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New camera…

We have entered the 21st century and bought a video camera.  It is actually our Christmas present to each other, but the reason is simplicity.  We had a camcorder that we bought before Olivia was born, so it’s a bit outdated. Plus- digitizing all the tapes is a pain.  It’s a surprisingly common problem.  The [...]

Tonight’s Gig

We’re doing a talking head tonight for the Center for Faith and Vocation. It involves 2 or 3 speakers and Powerpoint, but the coolest thing I’m using is the Extron MTP Series Twisted Pair Transmitter/Receiver. It’s a little black-box style AV converter that allows me to send VGA (or higher) signals up to [...]

Recording at the Hall

 
Since it’s Sunday, we’re in the middle of instrumental music from JCFA, and that means recording.  At the hall, we use two Neumann u89 large diaphragm, condenser mics hung from a wire.  Signal hits a myriad of gear (that I won’t go into…suffice to say that it ends up on a CD….) before eventually being [...]

The past week or so…

This week was pretty uneventful as far as weeks go.  We had the Mid Winter Ballet and it’s generally calm around the hall.  I took care of  stage left and that involves changing gels in the booms when required, turning on the hazer, sweeping/mopping,etc.  We also hung the Dali drop.  The Butler Ballet owns a [...]