Legal dealings for Remotesters...... - Page 2

slaphappygarry · 16th November 2008

I had an live orchestral job a few months ago. It was a first performance of someones Symphony and it was more for documentation than distribution although still a full productions recording. This was also done on a shoe string budget with us in the end doing the multi for what would normally just about pay for a stereo recording.

During the Opera prior to the Orchestra one of the stage lights went out tripping a power switch for our side of the stage killing our multitrack system. My assistant had been asked to bring his laptop with a little stereo sound card and had been taking a passive split from the main stereo pair.

When I explained what had happened to the client he nearly physically kissed me, delighted that we were profesional enough to have this simple discrete backup in place (laptop with battery, sound running on firewire and passive splitters from the M149's).

For 2 minutes of the final mix he received there is a little section where the spot mics discretely fade to the main pair and then fade back in.

This was a budget recording where I could have not bothered with the hassle of the backup but just seeing the clients face and his praise at how we avoided a major problem was worth it ten times over.

Incidentally, we were never once questioned about the power fault, any backups we could or should have had in place. It was a very possitive thing and made me look like a real pro in the clients eyes.

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16th November 2008	#31
slaphappygarry Gear addict Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 454	I had an live orchestral job a few months ago. It was a first performance of someones Symphony and it was more for documentation than distribution although still a full productions recording. This was also done on a shoe string budget with us in the end doing the multi for what would normally just about pay for a stereo recording. During the Opera prior to the Orchestra one of the stage lights went out tripping a power switch for our side of the stage killing our multitrack system. My assistant had been asked to bring his laptop with a little stereo sound card and had been taking a passive split from the main stereo pair. When I explained what had happened to the client he nearly physically kissed me, delighted that we were profesional enough to have this simple discrete backup in place (laptop with battery, sound running on firewire and passive splitters from the M149's). For 2 minutes of the final mix he received there is a little section where the spot mics discretely fade to the main pair and then fade back in. This was a budget recording where I could have not bothered with the hassle of the backup but just seeing the clients face and his praise at how we avoided a major problem was worth it ten times over. Incidentally, we were never once questioned about the power fault, any backups we could or should have had in place. It was a very possitive thing and made me look like a real pro in the clients eyes. G