Topic: Proof that Church Audio mics are freaking awesome!!!!

[illconditioned]

I've got a clip on soundmann.com now.  Duane Rutter, at a regular venue for me, so you can compare the sound of these and other setups...

  Richard

[willyp523]

Here's some samples of a Mayer show my son taped.  His first time taping so I wouldn't let him out of the house with my MT or h120.

CA cards-->SP battery box-->Sharp DR7 MD

http://tinyurl.com/2evy76 

http://tinyurl.com/26ye7v

...and a Police show I did from the far end of the arena

CA cards-->CA 9000 pre-->h120

http://tinyurl.com/22r6ow

[GroundHog420]

Here are some video clips from a show I recorded at Holocene in Portland, Oregon, on June 29, 2008:

http://www.vimeo.com/1603674

The video guys and I were recording independently of each other, after I made a few adjustments to the audio, they synched it to the video for the clips they posted.

I was running four Church Audio mics, through a custom 4-channel pre-amp made by Chris. The room was pretty quiet, and I was back at the soundboard, so I took a chance and bumped the high pass filter up to +30dB. Straight to M-Audio Microtrack (internal vol. boost off; 16-bit). Two cards, for direct stage acoustics, and two omnis, for room sound; mixed on the fly per song, through a Sony MDR-V6 headset.

In retrospect, I probably could have switched to 24-bit for this, but maybe next time!

[Kevin Straker]

That mk4>nbox sample sounds thin and harsh as hell! I hope they don't all sound like this. The Church setup has better detail and smoothness all the way around in these samlpes. The midrange is more pronounced and clear, the wah guiatar part that opens the tune sounds harsh and growly on the mk4 setup, but much more smooth and pleasant on the church rig.

[EarlyMorningRain]

j, free ?!?

heya heya, fancy seeing you here! Haven't seen you since that M'Pups show we taped last Fall at the Varsity!

Nice samples indeed, thanks for posting!

Here are some video clips from a show I recorded at Holocene in Portland, Oregon, on June 29, 2008:

http://www.vimeo.com/1603674

The video guys and I were recording independently of each other, after I made a few adjustments to the audio, they synched it to the video for the clips they posted.

I was running four Church Audio mics, through a custom 4-channel pre-amp made by Chris. The room was pretty quiet, and I was back at the soundboard, so I took a chance and bumped the high pass filter up to +30dB. Straight to M-Audio Microtrack (internal vol. boost off; 16-bit). Two cards, for direct stage acoustics, and two omnis, for room sound; mixed on the fly per song, through a Sony MDR-V6 headset.

In retrospect, I probably could have switched to 24-bit for this, but maybe next time!

[GroundHog420]

Howdy - good to hear from you!  Yeah, this is the same rig I showed you at The Varsity, only Chris set me straight on a few things I was doing wrong at that Meat Puppets show, and I think I finally got it down after we settled in PDX.  I was supposed to have run the Holocene show from the stage lip as well, but sound check actually started on time (!), and I was running late, so I went with setting up a taller stand at the soundboard.  I think this recording could have benefited by a slight increase of the cards in the mix, but the band was happy with the results here, so I wasn't going to argue.

j, free ?!?

heya heya, fancy seeing you here! Haven't seen you since that M'Pups show we taped last Fall at the Varsity!

Nice samples indeed, thanks for posting!

[GroundHog420]

Here are some audio clips of The Retake (Trio), recorded live at the Nightlight Lounge in Portland, OR on April, 3rd 2009 by J. Free.

These clips were recorded using the custom 4-channel pre-amp and custom single-line cards built for me by Chris Church.
Each instrument was individually miked and mixed on the spot, in a situation where setting up a couple of room mics would have resulted in a lot of chatter with some background music.