OK,... get this.
Timeline, this afternoon.
I get to the hall two hours early. I'm in and set up before the orchestras rehearsal. I get my sound check, and everything is fine to three rigs:
LA CM3 pair as center wide_ORTF array at stage-lip Tas. DR70D
DPA4060 pair as 12' spaced omnis at stage-lip -> Tas. DR70D
Sennheiser MKE2002 Gude Head -> Edirol R09HR at 2nd row center
Both rigs soundchecked fine. Set, ready, roll.
Results:
The CM3 pair; The left mic had some music, but, a continual rapid-fire thumping at around 40hz. The right mic, nothing musical, but the same 40hz thumping like a machine gun.
So, I'm totally frustrated that the CM3 tracks are junk. but, hey, I still have the DPA4060 tracks, and the Senn MKE2002 Binaural tracks.
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Uhhmmm.....
Senn MKE2002 -> Edirol R09HR,... only the left track recorded.
In a panic, I slap on the cans, and listen to the 4060 tracks; normalcy.
The only difference in my usual routine is that I offered to run a small video camera from the balcony, and my rigs were at the stage-lip, and at 2nd row, center (first row roped off for my stage-lip rig).
Do the taping gods hate vidiots that much, that they would have caused gremlins to lurk in my audio rigs? I never run video,... acçCKK!i!
OK,... I do the try-to-replicate-the-situation here at home,...
CM3 pair act like my best buddies. Both fire up, and, track just fine.
The Senn MKE2002 -> R09HR rig,... same frigging thing. They worked perfectly as they have since the mid-80's.
FUCKKKKKK!!! WTF?? thrashes around,.... fuckkk!!! WTF??
(< and I hate using smilies!)
one last scream,.....
AHHHH!!!