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Subject: Re: That "Wavy Thing" (was: Miniature Pseudo-SASS Array)
From: "Avocet" madl74
Date: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:53 am ((PDT))
> I just mixed a Proms at Albert Hall a few weeks back, but I was 
> doing the PA mix, not the on-air mix.

Scott,

I'm afraid I'm stuck in a luddite timewarp when one listened to 
musical instruments played in an auditorium. :-) I remember fondly the 
Albert Hall echo which the BBC killed off many years ago.

In the choice of excellent recording mixes versus music, I tried to 
produce TV balances, but in the Film Unit I never had more than 15 
tracks to record on. I recorded a Havana Jazz Festival which was raw, 
bold and brassy, (trombones played like percussion) but the 
co-producers, Island Records, insisted on a smoothed out recording 
type mix. In the final dubbing, they even mixed in canned applause on 
a compulsory pro-regime item. :-(

I'm now doing "mixing by selection" with the wildlife. While I am 
guilty of doing a bit of gentle cleaning up on my nature stuff, I aim 
to reproduce what is out there warts and all. I'm thinking of going to 
four tracks, but multitracking a wood would be an interesting idea, 
but like music mixes would probably kill the ambience.

David

David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce







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