I'm still not convinced...

... that DCOs through formidable VCFs are inferior to VCOs.  I site: The Novation A Station, the Korg Poly 800, the Korg DW 6000 and DW 8000, among plenty of others.  Maybe it's my taste in synths, or my taste in music made by particular synths, but I feel that the filter is where it's at, not the oscillator.

I shall update this diatribe, following some hardcore synthery on Friday night with Red Sea Radio!

My motor is a fan of Dickens...

We all need literate motors.

Today's gig...

I guess I'll start this blog off with a bit of day to day.  For the past three days my job has been doing audio for the York Symphony at the Strand.  It's been mind numbingly easy.  How easy?  This blog didn't exist before I started the run... that's how easy!

For the first piece the symphony is trying something funky.  They're doing a piece called "Mothership", and if I gave a shit I'd remember who composed it.  The piece requires sample playback from a laptop being triggered onstage.  However, for "reasons", the symphony wants the sample playback to sound like it's part of the musicians onstage, therefore, rather than using the 10 pieces of JBL line array per side, I'm feeding (from independent left right mixes) two Yamaha 15" bins on sticks on either side of the timpani risers.  It certainly sounds like it's coming from the orchestra.  Oddly, they were adamant that the playback be true stereo... but with the speakers being as far upstage as can be, the audience loses the stereo perspective.  Oh well.  I'm only following orders.

Aside from the stereo playback onstage, I have an announce mic (wireless Shure 58) to mix, and a shotgun (some old-ass AKG) to feed into the lobby and ALS.  Easy as pie.  To make the whole thing silly, when I showed up at the venue, I had this to mix on:

A Yamaha PM5D for 3 inputs and 4 sends.  Its like bringing a nuclear warhead to a pillow fight.

I'm currently on a (long) break between morning rehearsal and the show this evening.  I expect not to elaborate on the gig very much... as there ain't a lot going on... but, again, to start the blog, this makes for a nice, if rather boring, slice of life.