{"id":4084,"date":"2008-12-08T22:26:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2008-12-08T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T03:26:20","slug":"i-was-the-sound-man-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/i-was-the-sound-man-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"i was the sound man (kinda)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/chriscoole.com\/\">Chris Coole<\/a> yesterday at The Local, and got pressed into the not-very-arduous duty of looking after the levels. With only voice and instrument, it&#8217;s not that hard, and I only once managed to produce an ear-splitting blast of feedback. There was a slight ring if Chris leaned forward and his guitar started to feed back a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>I also ran my first soundboard-audience matrix recording rig, with the PMD620 recording off the board, and my old minidisc recording from my table. The Local&#8217;s not short of ambient noise, so it&#8217;s nice to control it. The board gives a clean but rather dead mono recording, while the audience mics pick up lots of colour (and dropped plates, door chimes, &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t put the full matrix together yet, but tried it on one excerpted song. Once you know what you&#8217;re doing, aligning tracks in Audacity is pretty simple &#8211; just find a clear note or beat in each track, get the tracks roughly aligned with the Time Shift tool, then zoom in as close as you can to refine the match. I suppose I should have delayed the audience track by about 0.01s to mimic the distance from the stage, but that&#8217;s a bit nerdy. Limiting the audience to 25% of the final mix, I get a great warm sound, but one that&#8217;s unfortunately almost entirely monaural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to hear Chris Coole yesterday at The Local, and got pressed into the not-very-arduous duty of looking after the levels. With only voice and instrument, it&#8217;s not that hard, and I only once managed to produce an ear-splitting blast of feedback. There was a slight ring if Chris leaned forward and his guitar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1102,2902,2903,1107,1149,1449,43],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-audacity","tag-banjo","tag-guitar","tag-minidisc","tag-pmd620","tag-soundboard","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-13S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}