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MartynH · 21st September 2003

I recently worked on a recording of Scottish Opera's Wagner Ring Cycle at the Edinburgh Festival, with BBC Scotland.

One key requirement from the Opera's point of view was keeping mics out of sightline as much as possible - we ended up using five coincident pairs of schoeps cardioids, two hypercardioids, and two akg gun mics pointing upstage all on the footlights, and three pairs slung very high, and then chasing the singers around the stage with them.

We close-miked the orchestra, and then for main system, used DPA mini-mics (personal clip-on type) in a decca tree, suspended on a matrix of fishing line at the height of the dress circle. Add a few omnis/outriggers, there you go!

The results can be heard on BBC radio 3 (listen online at bbc.co.uk/radio3) at 5pm GMT today (sunday), an for the next four days.

21st September 2003	#6
MartynH Gear interested Joined: Sep 2003 Location: London, UK Posts: 8	I recently worked on a recording of Scottish Opera's Wagner Ring Cycle at the Edinburgh Festival, with BBC Scotland. One key requirement from the Opera's point of view was keeping mics out of sightline as much as possible - we ended up using five coincident pairs of schoeps cardioids, two hypercardioids, and two akg gun mics pointing upstage all on the footlights, and three pairs slung very high, and then chasing the singers around the stage with them. We close-miked the orchestra, and then for main system, used DPA mini-mics (personal clip-on type) in a decca tree, suspended on a matrix of fishing line at the height of the dress circle. Add a few omnis/outriggers, there you go! The results can be heard on BBC radio 3 (listen online at bbc.co.uk/radio3) at 5pm GMT today (sunday), an for the next four days.