Isaiah Rowe chillin at the API.
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Studio Tour Day! Analog Soul, Digital Control! API/Pro Tools. Nothing but the best.
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Chief Engineer Jim Curtis enjoying a moment with two students at the API console in Studio C.
Chris Guyette setting up a session in Pro Tools.
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If you're going to dream, dream BIG! Our SSL 9072J with the lights down.
Analog Love! Get close up and personal with a Solid State Logic 9072J analog console.
Chief Engineer Jim teaching audio for video and film editing in studio D.
Big #choir and #orchestra concert. A dozen #school districts represented. #Students practiced for months for this. It is in a big historic #concert venue. Couple thousand family members in the audience.
Elementary choir final number. Backed by an actual jazz combo. Beautiful singing. Two very young girls--5th grade, maybe--dressed to the nines, nervous but clearly prepared, step up to some microphones set up for this. Moment. Their lips move as they count down to their cues The director looks encouragingly their way. They've got this.
First one, then the other, step up to their mic and deliver their absolute best solo, technically proficient as well as soulful beyond their tender years.
Or that is what I assume because the audience heard dead silence while two children's mouths moved for twenty seconds. No sound at all.
And that is how I surmise that up to four adults are now feeling actively homicidal toward some #soundtechnicians.
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Oh I forgot one! During second service, our upstream connection to our streaming platforms totally disconnected. Hard. I had to force it to go to a dedicated region that was close enough to get it started again.
We had hundreds of dropped frames and if you don’t resume a stream quickly enough, platforms will end the stream because they think it’s done. #churchtech #WereDoingItLive #livestream #soundtech #graphicstech
I’m officially out of brain power as of lunchtime on Sunday. I volunteer at my church, ran today’s livestream, and know the other roles such as graphics/lyrics and audio. This all came in handy because every station had significant issues this morning.
Here’s a list, roughly in order of how this morning went down:
1. Got church around 7:00, 15 minutes early, because I woke up around 5:30. We had no audio whatsoever.
2. Our normal tech director/worship leader was off this weekend – or so he thought. He ended up getting called in after we couldn’t get the audio working no matter what we tried. It’s now 8:15 and the band can start rehearsing, nearly an hour late.
3. After rebooting everything in the proper sequence, we got audio.
4. Except the live stream didn’t have the room mics in our DAW. Stream will lack some ambiance today.
5. We also didn’t have a graphics person this weekend because of scheduling reasons, so we went from 3 people down to 2. Between me and the sound tech, we’re doing double duty. The first song lyrics were also not timed correctly with MIDI so they were behind.
6. Two minutes in to first service, the lyrics feed to the streaming video switcher started flickering uncontrollably. There’s a 0.0% chance I’m going to show that on stream, so I don’t. I have to change the angles of all our cameras to also see lyrics/slides off the projector.
7. Tried to fix item 6 between services, crashed ProPresenter 7 two minutes before second service. That software handles all visual multimedia.
8. Shortly after going live on Facebook, we get copyright notices (because those are automatically scanned for every stream) for music. It thinks we don’t have the rights, even though we do.
My favorite expression in live music is ‘we’re doing it live’. Despite all the issues listed above, very few actually impacted service in a meaningful way.
#Coppola’s Conversation 50 y:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/07/the-conversation-50th-anniversary
My favorite in maestro's whole oeuvre! Seen it prob hundred times as a young #movie buff.
' Through a beautiful choreography of technicians and listening devices, including a mic that not-so-subtly resembles a sniper rifle, Harry gets the coverage his client wants and takes it back to his office for an edit. '
Ahem, dear journalist, it _is_ called ”shotgun mic” in #soundtech jargon. He'd be using it even if there wasn’t symbolism involved.
The Guardian · The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece
FREE PALESTINE I just realised I forgot to do my #introduction here! I'm a long time #ActivityPub user with @nextcloud, but only started playing with #PixelFed and #Mastodon last year, when I decided to begin deactivating, and stop consuming ALL corporate social media, and as much from #BigTech as possible. All power to the people!
I'm also a #musician - #drums, #guitar, #bass, #tenorSax. I've played in dozens of bands over the last 25 years but am now retired as "a grumpy #soundtech, but I ain't grumpy!