Posted by Steve King on 09/14/06 14:08

"HiC" <brassplyer@xahoo.xom> wrote in message
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> "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.

Hey big guy. Big never made a mistake guy. Big jerk. Big deal! You sound
like someone without any experience at all. Tell us why your conjecture
should be worth reading here.

Steve King

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