Daughter's Homework

evm1024

evm1024

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It has been a long time since I've done anything audio. Real Life caught up with me and kept me away....

My daughter plays violin for her high school orchestra and was given homework of playing a 20 second piece. The piece needed to be recorded and emailed to the teacher. Options for recording were: iphone, windows sound recorder or any other such software provided the teacher could play it on her computer.

After recording directly into her PC my daughter came to me.... It will be interesting to see if the teacher has any comments. The recording chain?

Modded Oktave MK319 in blumlein into a DIY Great River MP-2 (not NV) and from there to an Ampex ATR-102 1/2" half track running at 30 ips on 499.

On playback we went to Microsoft sound recorder....

Regards, Ethan

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What did you use as an interface from the reel to reel into the computer? That could well be the weak link in the chain if you didn't have a specialist AI.

That said, I suspect your daughter's homework would have turned out to be technically so far ahead of the rest of the class on their iPhones that I'm just being picky.

(Your story brings back memories BTW...when my daughter was in High School I had to do a similar project except, in her case, it was a vocal not an instrument. This was in the early 2000s so I was using Cool Edit Pro and a good collection of mics back then.)
 
I had to do something recently for my son for an audition. Made me feel good to help him.

You have multipattern 319's? That's cool. I used to have a cardioid pair.
 
leddy said:
I had to do something recently for my son for an audition. Made me feel good to help him.

You have multipattern 319's? That's cool. I used to have a cardioid pair.
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The mods to the 319's opened up the pattern quite a bit. But they are not true figure of 8 so I should have called it a coincident x-y. I was going to use a pair of ribbons but grabbed the 319 instead and had blumlein on the brain.


I'm pretty much pure analog at this point. There is a (M-Audio?) interface in one of the dead computers lying around that I should reanimate. The encoder on the motherboard is most surely the weak link in the chain. I did not want to overkill (oh that is a lie. I wanted her audition to stand out).

Regards
 
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