Posted by HiC on 09/14/06 11:17

"WillStG" <willstg@aol.com> wrote in message
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> HiC wrote:
> > I can understand a mic dying, even after it's been
> > checked. But this was someone having their thumb up their nose.
>
> How do you know the mixer had his thumb up his nose?


Whatever orifice it was in, it clearly wasn't in the right place.


> There are plenty of ways to get bagged.
> The guys at the facility down the street can be using RF's on your
> frequency, or you could have ENG guys covering a story nearby using
> RF's that knock your mics down. This happened to Barry Manilow's vocal
> mic on a NBC Today show appearance a while back, his mic went dead on
> air. Someone can bump up against the patchbay cables and bust a
> military connector. Or someone could drive the lighting genie over
> your audio snake,

Again, an outright gear failure I can understand. But this was pretty
obviously a pure screwup, not due to the oddball circumstances you've
postulated. You could hear the band, you could only hear her through the
ambient mics. Then she came up a a little, then all the way, in a quick fade
up. No bullshit excuses, somebody blew it.


> But I figure a lot of people are like you, and will
> choose to blame the audio mixer first and ask questions later.

I can't say for certain who it was, but given the nature of the way her
sound finally came up - little bit, then hurriedly ramping up to full
volume, it sounded to me like someone with control over a fader.

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