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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: teamakg on January 28, 2004, 10:48:36 PM
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gonna be taping a high school orchestra in a couple weeks. tomorrow they're gonna be rehearsing. about 100 members in an auditorium that seats 1300. acoustics of the place are great. i have 2 akg 480's with both the card and hyper caps running into a UA5(wmod). i can setup anywhere i want. i plan on using the cards. at least i think i do. tomorrow is my chance to do whatever. i planned on running various configs, ortf, din, xy, ect. i've got 4 songs to get my shit together so i'm wondering what do people recommend i try for configs. sorry if this is the wrong foum but it gets the most action and i need to know by tomorrow. ;D thanks for any advice.
george
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not sure on soloists. how would that change things? also how high should i run them? got a 13' bogen. you said right behind the conductor. as in his head height or do i wanna be above him? thanks.
george
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Depends on many variables, but all things being equal I prefer orchestra sound recorded from between the first couple rows of seats to about 1/3 of the way into the hall. Especially since you have hyper card option.
A more distant perspective can be better for a high school orch because of its customarily poor intonation and blending problems. From further back, you don't here the off key or strident individuals within a section so much, but just get more of a smuded pitch center.
Plus you'll pick up the room accoustic which will give you more of a "Live in Concert" sound that the group might appreciate.
The rehearsal will presumably be at least an hour, so you should have a chance to try out a couple perspectives.
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And bear in mind the physical width of the ensemble.
Doing an X-Y or ORTF from the conductor's perspective can give yield an unrealistic stereo image.
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yea i'd say behind the conductor. when they did our orchestra and choir, they ran i think 480's or 391's for the orchestra, DIN about 8 ft up, pointing center and slightly down towards them. then our choir was recorded with 414's i beleive... i love the sound of the orchestra from it. it was probably 9-10 ft from them @ 6-8 ft high.. good luck hope it works out well..
matt