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Comment on A global audience by Michael Tiemann

Michael Tiemann — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:27:49 +0000

I just spotted a visit from Greenland! I wonder how long it will take before it’s registered in the flag box.

Comment on Competition vs. Validation by Jeff Wenzel

Jeff Wenzel — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:56:53 +0000

Thanks for your kind words!

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Intersecting journey of Free Culture, Creative Commons and Plone - Nate Aune — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:13:15 +0000

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Comment on More than a coincidence: Frederic Chiu records at Manifold Recording by Michael Tiemann

Michael Tiemann — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:58:54 +0000

Frederic has updated his Kickstarter page with some updates giving credit to other team members who made this recording project work so well. You can read those updates here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405252292/recording-the-album-hymns-and-whirling-dervishes/posts

Comment on Moments of Enlightenment with Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider by Organic Evolution « Manifold Recording / The Miraverse

Organic Evolution « Manifold Recording / The Miraverse — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:05:50 +0000

[...] for our new 2KW 10″ studio fresnel, which is powerful enough to provide key lighting for a 5-member ensemble (and then [...]

Comment on More than a coincidence: Frederic Chiu records at Manifold Recording by Dear Governor Cuomo « Manifold Recording / The Miraverse

Dear Governor Cuomo « Manifold Recording / The Miraverse — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:34:43 +0000

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Comment on More than a coincidence: Frederic Chiu records at Manifold Recording by Michael Tiemann

Michael Tiemann — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:44:23 +0000

Castle, the gear setup for audio and video is as follows:

A Yamaha CFIIIS provided by Miller Piano (Charlotte, NC)

DPA 3521 compact cardiod stereo pair in the body of the piano positioned above the harp.
Schoeps CMC65 Mk-5 (switchable cardiod/omni capsules) stereo pair in omni over the hammers.
An L-C-R tree with full-sized DPA 3511 cardiod stereo pair for L-R and 4006 omni for C.
A pair of Sanken C100K omnis picking up the room at the east corner of the room (behind Frederic).
A pair of Sennheiser MKH 70 shotgun mics picking up the room at the west corner (above the soffit).

All of the above are feeding straight into the API 212L console preamps.

An Earthworks QTC-40 omni is in the Contol Room, going through a Millennia Media HV-32 preamp.

Lighting in the Music Room comes from ambient lights (24 120W Halogen Lamps at 22′), key lighting from an ARRI L7-C LED fresnel at about 75% 3200K, and hair (or beauty) lights from a pair of ARRI 300plus fresnels behind Frederic. (The high 300W lamp was full power, the second was lower, and mainly filled the shadow under the piano with a 2x scrim). Camera was HMC150 using Scene5 FilmCam, 1080p30, with 3.2K WB preset.

Lighting in the Control Room comes from ambient lights (8 50W Halogen Lamps at 12′) plus an ARRI L7-C LED fresnel at about 65% 3200K and -0.20 Green (compensating for 1″ of glass) and an ARRI 650plus fresnel diffused. Camera was AF100 using Scene5 FilmCam, 1080p30, with 3.2K WB preset.

On the first day, my solution to “audio follows video” was simply to let the camera microphones pick up the respective environments, which was effective but a little to “authentic”. On the second day, we routed all of the mic channels plus a (rough) stereo mix to the Harrison Trion console in the studio annex. There, I made a custom mix for each camera and stream it via Ustream’s ProducerPro application. The decision I made (for better or worse) was to use the stereo pair over the harp to represent the sound of the recording in the music room and the stereo mix from the console mixed with the CR mic to represent the sound inside the Control Room.

Comment on More than a coincidence: Frederic Chiu records at Manifold Recording by Castle Cruz (@castlecruz)

Castle Cruz (@castlecruz) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:33:28 +0000

I loved watching bits and pieces live over the weekend. As a fellow ustreamer I was really happy to see such good video (and, relatively speaking, audio) quality. We’ve switched over to Blackmagic hardware for streaming and have upgraded our internet connection, but the quality is not as good as yours. I’d love to see an outline of your setup.

Comment on Speech text from the grand opening of Manifold Recording and The Miraverse by Moments of Enlightenment with Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider « Manifold Recording / The Miraverse

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:56:14 +0000

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