In Reply to: re Channel Classics & Walter Lily posted by Bill Way on March 4, 2016 at 22:05:02:
The only live orchestra experience that I had was back in the early 1960's, when WHRB was a mono FM station and when the BSO played a Tuesday concert series at Sanders Theater on the Harvard campus. The regular WGBH engineer had set up during the rehearsal, set levels (allowing for how much louder the musicians would play with audience) and checked the leased lines to the WGBH studio. He wasn't available for the actual concert, and WGBH didn't have a substitute so they contacted WHRB and I got the duty.
The engineer had hung a single omni condenser microphone at its usual position over the podium. I didn't have much to do, just watch the musicians play through the windows and look at the VU meters, which hit zero once at the loudest part of the concert. Since this was a regular concert series it was easy to get consistently good results once someone had found the best location of the microphone. The goal was to document the performance, not manipulate the results to produce something phony.
Tony Lauck
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