Gig Report: Wooster Group at St. Ann's Warehouse

RobAnderson · 28th April 2009

Hi all

I recorded the Wooster Group's production of La Didone at the St. Ann's Warehouse down in Brooklyn this past Saturday and Sunday.

It was a pretty crazy gig - it is a Baroque Opera that is being performed simultaneously with a re-enactment of a 1960's sci-fi film "Planet of the Vampires." That may sound like an odd combination, but it was a really cool production. The theatre, however, was not so "cool" - it was a hot weekend here in NYC. There is no AC in St. Ann's; at showtime on Saturday, in my little booth, it was 84 degrees at downbeat and 87 by the end of the show. Sunday was even hotter: downbeat was 86 degrees and we ended up around 92.

Matt Schloss was running the live sound and Bruce Odland did the sound design. These two shows were recorded for video, and I had a 5-mic surround array hung (a la Williams). I was recording 43 inputs and running 18 tracks of stems and some redundant tracks as backup into ProTools. Our distinguished moderator was kind enough to loan me a couple of snakes to help with the interconnects (Thanks again Steve!)

Here are a few of the pic's I managed to take.

More coming...

Enjoy.

RobAnderson · 28th April 2009

Here are a few views of the surround array

The three front mic's are Oktava MK-012's (cardioid). The rears are KM140's

RobAnderson · 28th April 2009

Another view of the rear mic's, the rack from behind, and a view of the stage.

Talk about spaghetti - that was the back of my rack on this gig. The interconnects were kind of complicated: in addition to all of the live mics (10 RF, Gtr, Accordian, a keyboard, a sampler, and a theorbo) there were two computers putting out 8 tracks each, and two feeds from the people running the film side of things (dialogue and sound fx). There were two consoles feeding the 35 speakers in the house. I used transformer splits on the wired mic's/DI's, Y-cables from the back of the wireless racks at FOH and a combination of direct feeds and insert sends for the computers.

bishopthomas · 29th April 2009

Awesome gig report, Rob! Sounds like a major production. Are you doing the mixing?

RobAnderson · 29th April 2009

Thanks Thomas!

I don't think I'll be involved in the post for this - Matt and Bruce will probably handle all of that - they are the ones who created the live sound design and I think the idea is to try and recreate that in 5.1 for the video.

**Remoteness** · 30th April 2009

Outstanding!

Nice job my man; keep up the awesome work!

28th April 2009	#1
RobAnderson Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: NY New York a wonderful town Posts: 725 Thread Starter 16 Reviews written	Gig Report: Wooster Group at St. Ann's Warehouse Hi all I recorded the Wooster Group's production of La Didone at the St. Ann's Warehouse down in Brooklyn this past Saturday and Sunday. It was a pretty crazy gig - it is a Baroque Opera that is being performed simultaneously with a re-enactment of a 1960's sci-fi film "Planet of the Vampires." That may sound like an odd combination, but it was a really cool production. The theatre, however, was not so "cool" - it was a hot weekend here in NYC. There is no AC in St. Ann's; at showtime on Saturday, in my little booth, it was 84 degrees at downbeat and 87 by the end of the show. Sunday was even hotter: downbeat was 86 degrees and we ended up around 92. Matt Schloss was running the live sound and Bruce Odland did the sound design. These two shows were recorded for video, and I had a 5-mic surround array hung (a la Williams). I was recording 43 inputs and running 18 tracks of stems and some redundant tracks as backup into ProTools. Our distinguished moderator was kind enough to loan me a couple of snakes to help with the interconnects (Thanks again Steve!) Here are a few of the pic's I managed to take. More coming... Enjoy. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - G. Stein 1946 The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. - Japanese Proverb "Look into his face and hear the music of the ages. Don't pay too much attention to the sounds--for if you do, you may miss the music." - George Ives http://www.andersonsoundrecording.com

28th April 2009	#2
RobAnderson Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: NY New York a wonderful town Posts: 725 Thread Starter 16 Reviews written	Here are a few views of the surround array The three front mic's are Oktava MK-012's (cardioid). The rears are KM140's Attached Thumbnails

28th April 2009	#3
RobAnderson Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: NY New York a wonderful town Posts: 725 Thread Starter 16 Reviews written	Another view of the rear mic's, the rack from behind, and a view of the stage. Talk about spaghetti - that was the back of my rack on this gig. The interconnects were kind of complicated: in addition to all of the live mics (10 RF, Gtr, Accordian, a keyboard, a sampler, and a theorbo) there were two computers putting out 8 tracks each, and two feeds from the people running the film side of things (dialogue and sound fx). There were two consoles feeding the 35 speakers in the house. I used transformer splits on the wired mic's/DI's, Y-cables from the back of the wireless racks at FOH and a combination of direct feeds and insert sends for the computers. Attached Thumbnails

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bishopthomas Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,565	Awesome gig report, Rob! Sounds like a major production. Are you doing the mixing?

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Remoteness Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 7,405	Outstanding! Nice job my man; keep up the awesome work!