I recently recorded Los Lobos at SLO Brewing Company in San Luis Obispo, CA. I ran my Neumann KM-140s (ORTF), hanging from the front center ceiling post about 10 feet off the floor and about 8 - 9 feet from the stage. I borrowed some 50 ft XLR cables from a friend who has a local PRO sound company, so I could have my Beyer MV-100 preamp / SBM-1 a/d converter and Sony TCD-D8 near the board (for ease of use and protection from the Mongol Hordes.)
Once the show started, I noticed that the right channel was not working. There was nothing I could do about it at the time, because the cables were taped down with a mile of duct tape and there were those...Mongol Hordes... out on the floor!
My left channel sounded really good, so I copied the good channel to the other side and sent the show to Dennis in Canada. He was able to add 25 milliseconds of delay to the 'mono' right channel. I was amazed at how good it sounded. Talk about making the best of a bad situation!
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