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I just thought I would share with you, how the actual session went:
I arrived at 8 in the morning about one hour before the musicians to put up microphones, set up the session in pro tools, the great LAWO console, patch for talk back ... and so on.
As I have planed I placed the four guitarist in the live end, and miked them up with ORTF (DPA 4023) and spots (DPA 4011).
The percussionplayer was placed in the dead end separated by a glasswall and miked up with AB (DPA 4006) and spots (Neumann TLM 193 on maracas and DPA 4006 on basdrum).
The musicians arrived ... They were very exited and happy, and they brought me coffee and everything (to persuade me to do it their way as they said ;-)) ... After this short social event, I went on, they played, I moved microphones around, ran back and forth between the studio and the control room and after 30 min. we were ready to have the first take.
I brought the musicians in to the control room to listen and to talk a little about the session plan. They were very pleased with the sound and it really felt like everybody was comfortably.
We recorded three movements of contemporary classical guitarmusic, and I had my challange to follow everything in the score, give critics, write session notes to the cut manustribt, stay calm and give direct and clear instructions. But somehow I managed.
At 17 (5 PM) we had everything recorded in 55 takes. We cleared the studio, smoked some cigaretes, and at 18 we were ready to cut. Three hours later I bounced some MP3's for the musicians to listen at before we go into the mix (I only think it will take a couple of hours to mix it - levels, reverb and master EQ and very gentle master compression.)
The musicians left with a smile on their faces :-)
Friday (tomorrow) we have another session with two of the guys in a guitar duo. It will take no more than two hours, and then we have the rest of the day to cut and to mix.
Sory for a long post ... Oh and by the way, I don't have any ribbons, but I would really like to try them. Thanks again
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