AAM studios "gig o the month"

[bjornson]

33rd Annual Univ. of Pittsburgh's jazz seminar and concert.
WOW, all these jazz greats in one show. A bit of a "blowfest" but so much fun....
The Lineup........
James Moody, Sax
Jackie McLean, Sax
Jon Faddis, Trumpet
Randy Brecker Trumpet
Abraham Laboriel, Bass
Mulgrew Miller, Piano
Pat Martino, Guitar
Billy Cobham, Drums
Pitts' own Nathon Davis, Sax
In one of my lives i'm the instructor for the Pitt jazz dept. recording studio, and this is our "big deal" for the semester. During rehearsal (er soundcheck), we ran 3 true precision 8 ch boxes on stage (pres) and delivered a conservative (wimpy) output, taking the Dsubs to the rec rig (3X Da98,38-d8b) while the split went to the crew from CZ sound who could still pad down and use the (mic level) front end of their yamaha M2404 and mackie 32x8 FOH consoles. High end mics were used throughout, 87s (10!) on all horns+pno , 414s on oh + sn, earthworks tc 30k on room.. The students worked really hard placing mics, listening, and tblshooting the rig.
BTW , CZ's proprietary boxes with a vertical array of ribbon tweets were a pleasure to listen to in Mr. Carnegies' 1500 seat hall.
Each student has to pick a song and mix.....
Gee college sure is cool these days!!!!!!

[bjornson]

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[bjornson]

stage lft view

[bjornson]

"Downtown" Joel Brown cabling FOH

[bjornson]

Nels Bjornson working on the final edit

[Remoteness]

Congratulations. I see some "cool schooling" going down. Awesome.

Were the DTRS machines used to get the show mix right? Tell us more if you got the time.

Did you use the Dsubs and TRS connectors (on the P8s) for your split? Or did you set up another rig?

[hollywood_steve]

Great gig, I hope the kids appreciate how cool this all is.....

Why drop the line level outputs down to mic level for the FOH mixers? Why didn't they just come into the FOH boards at the line level inputs?

I gotta start bringing a digi camera to jobs

Thanks for the photos!

[Dave Martin]

Sounds like a great gig - can I mix one of the tracks, too?

[bjornson]

Thanks for the comments. The "CZ sound" snake was all xrl w/passive split and I didn't have time to run for my 2 32 ch female xlr to trs snakes, so we just chose a nice comfy level out of p8s that the 2 production consoles could bear. The ancient yamaha actually seemed to have more headroom than the 32x8 mackie. The parallel outputs of the p8 is a really nice feature. I ran a separate snake to the DTRS decks right off the pres on stage. I had NO recorder input level control at FOH!!!! Monitored off D8B. Thought about using D8B converters and routing but decided against it. The new os 5 is still a little cranky and didn't want to take a chance. Also considered just copping the mackie inserts, but the p8s sound so much better and that would of tied the hands of the FOH engineer too. When I was in college, in your junior year you got to edit on the scully 1/2 track!
Dave if your serious I'll ask the "powers that be". The kids take a crack at it on the schools HD2 rig, and then I mix it and deliver a finished product to the provost.

[Dave Martin]

Originally posted by bjornson
Dave if your serious I'll ask the "powers that be". The kids take a crack at it on the schools HD2 rig, and then I mix it and deliver a finished product to the provost.

It sounds pretty musical, so I'd be happy to take a swing at it, as long as I can get it on DTRS tapes. (I'd far rather listen to my DA-78 converters than my Digidesign converters...

[JayCrouch]

hey, put me down for mixing a tune as well!

I love mixing live stuff that has been tracked with well placed transducers run along with clean preamps.

A CD-R w/ the PT session and audio files would work for me.

Perhaps you could have a student, dave, myself, and steve mix the same song - not to see who mixes it "better", but to see what we do with your tracks..

sounds like fun, and it's cool to hear that the students were actually into the mic placement, thumbs up!

[JayCrouch]

hey - just checking up to see how this project is coming along...

also, is it still possible for Dave and I to take a crack at mixing a tune?

[Dave Martin]

What Jay said.

[bjornson]

Still waiting for an answer from the "powers that be".

[studjo]

Hey guys if you can use a pair of european ears I sure would like to mix a song with Jon Faddis and Randy Brecker playing. The fact that Pat Martino plays guitar doesn't hurt either.
PT files or WAV would be cool, but bear in mind I'm a bottom feeder.

Jo