{"id":103,"date":"2022-12-07T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremynothman.wordpress.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2022-12-07T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:12:42","slug":"location-recording-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremynothman.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/location-recording-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Recording Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Avant-Jazz sounds even better through the mics than in the room!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Grey<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend, I had the chance to help out Martin Ruch<\/a> with a recording in the Kammermusiksaal at Hamburg’s infamous<\/a> Elbphilharmonie. While I haven’t had the chance to work in the main hall (which some musicians claim has too diffuse a sound to properly hear themselves), the sound on stage in the Kammermusiksaal was truly lovely. From here, we captured the sound of a concert kindly hosted by the Jazz Federation Hamburg<\/a> from two incredibly talented Polish pianists, Vladislav Sendecki<\/a> and Dominick Wania<\/a>, who played a set of piano duos on two Steinway D pianos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, playing the pianos back-to-back without their lids on provides a beautiful visual effect and allows the musicians to better hear each other, and allows a lot of options for microphone placement, but adds to the diffuse sound of the room, as opposed to directing the sound towards the audience (the hall walls with carved wood-panelling in the shape of waves, reducing direct reflections).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vladislav<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a little conversation, Martin decided that the best option for the situation would (especially given that we didn’t know the intended outcome – a classical style, more distant recording, or a jazz style, closer recording), we recorded the instruments and total picture from a few different perspectives, that leave the option to mix, match, and change focus, so to say. These included ORTF pairs<\/a> close to the hammers of each piano, a ribbon Blumlein pair<\/a> between the two pianos, another pair of microphones raised well above the pianos to capture the full stage image, an omni-directional microphone over each piano, and then two extra pairs of microphones to capture ambient sound, adding options for mixing in more room in a stereo recording, with a view to the current state of digital audio – adding sources for a Dolby Atmos mix. We then recorded redundantly on to two computers simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woo! The reality of modern recording is not always what is taught at school! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From outside of the hall, Martin and I monitored the microphone inputs and set gain. What a sound, and what a pleasure! These two pianists are real firecrackers!
As a bonus, the somewhat overly-ambient sound that I’d heard in the auditorium from the audience gallery was very well tempered with the closer mics, leading to a recording that, I hate to say it, sounds even better than the audience experience was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks again to Martin and Jazz Federation for having me along for the ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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