I was the guy doing the sound for the show so I would like to add
my take to your questions.
I caught Analog Live at Redcat last week, and it was great. Sure,
the last piece wasn't exactly analog,
True although I think too much is made of this considering
everything was run through a digital mixer (Yamaha DM2000), plus no
one ever mentions that Chas didn't play anything analog, he was mainly
acoustic with lots of digital processing. In the end even with the
digital and acoustic elements it sounded great and to me that was the
main thing.
and Thighpaulsandra wasn't
entirely live or analog (lots of sequencing and digital piano),
from PG: Something tells me you were on the right side of the Theater, yes? That wasn't digital piano Thighp was using! We had a Steinway behind his riser and he stepped down there and played those sections live. He originally intended to ring modulate it via the Aries and had it set up at one point, but TPS's preferred it unprocessed.
Yes it was a nine foot Steinway grand and was mic'ed with two AKG
414s. We tried the ring mod in rehearsal but TPS wasn't happy with it.
He mentioned that in the studio version of the piece the ring mod was
tracking the same root pitch of what he was playing, while in
rehearsal it was static. So he felt it was better without the ring mod
then with it. If we had left the Steinway where it was originally
positioned then you would have had no trouble seeing it as it was put
in front of all the risers. Of course that would have meant not seeing
all the gear (and we know you all want to see the gear!) so we
moved it behind the risers.
4. Seemed like almost everybody had a laptop. What were they
doing?
PG: Midi sequencing mostly. Four of the parts in my piece were played by midi files so I could control the dynamics and pitches while I had to do other things with my hands. I'm not familier enough with the other pieces to embellish what thers were doing, though I do know Gary's was supping the triggers with fired the gates on his Waird because timing of those events and the polyphony of those timing was critical.
To add, Gary had Logic 8 on his lap top and a TC Electronic Studio Konnekt 48 audio card
hooked up to it. He was basically using his lap top as a mixer for his
synths. The output of his computer then went into a TC Electronic
M6000 which then sent everything to me in 5.1.
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Take care.
- Loren Nerell
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