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In the Forum: Musical Discussions
In the Thread: Non-classical genius (starting with Leonard Cohen)
Post Subject: (Im)Properly amplified orchestraPosted by tuga on: 7/6/2009
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law…



My wife and I both had a good laugh at that.

 Romy the Cat wrote:

Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law… From another side you still have live orchestra? Some opera houses in NY are practicing now to stage opera production with recorded orchestra sound.

Sure, no one with sanity would live amplified orchestra but I know what the event organizers would reply to you. Sine I do not prove to other that I am sane I would state heresy: I love the amplified orchestra. The key in this is “properly amplified orchestra”, something that you will hardly ever experience in real world. The whole idea to properly and smartly amplify an orchestra and to make it so good that no one would recognize the fact that the orchestra is sound reinforced is so attractive to me (for years!) that if I have a chance I would love to work in such a project pro bono.

Try to identify everything in the amplified orchestra that you like? Make note. Then itemize what you did not like and work on resolution of those “do not like” items.

The Cat


The sound could have been acceptable had the organizers, as you so often say, educated themselves on how to properly amplify the orchestra and singers (the choir was singing "live").
This did not happen, though, and despite the relaxing HF roll off microphones were incorrectly (in my view) positioned, the timbre (most noticeable on violins) was totally off and I was for the first time very bothered by the distinct presence of different drivers.
Sitting close to the left speaker didn't help either and in the silent moments one could hear the PS van.

In this case I can't really find anything I liked about an amplified orchestra and since I was siting less than 10m away I didn't really need any amplification.

Cheers,
Ric

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