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Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with
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Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. Congratulations! I know you will like the mic. My favorite evaluation technique is A-B comparison (or, for loudspeakers, A-X-Y comparison). I suggest that you double-track 'raw' the '55 with another mic you really like, using a familiar voice. In playback, route everything to a single monitor speaker. Flip-phase one track and mix them to mono. Adjust the levels for the best null and restore the phase. Then, using your 'standard' EQ settings on your reference mic's track, use top and bottom shelving to get a similar bass/treble balance on the RE55 track. Flip the phase on one track and again seek the best null. Now, after a long, ear-relaxing break, A-B the tracks. Let us know your results. Of course all you're going to use them for is drums ... ;-) -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. My comment about using the RE55 only on drums revived an important recollection. In the early '70s the music director on The Lawrence Show insisted on a single RE55 for the drum kit. Placement was a few inches behind the top edge of the kick drum, essentially in the center of the kit. It sounded OK, but the player at that time did not give me a valid reference. I've often wanted to record drums with a clip-on lapel mic to hear what the player is hearing. -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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On 2/15/2012 8:14 PM, Roy W. Rising wrote:
mcp6453 wrote: Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. Congratulations! I know you will like the mic. My favorite evaluation technique is A-B comparison (or, for loudspeakers, A-X-Y comparison). I suggest that you double-track 'raw' the '55 with another mic you really like, using a familiar voice. In playback, route everything to a single monitor speaker. Flip-phase one track and mix them to mono. Adjust the levels for the best null and restore the phase. Then, using your 'standard' EQ settings on your reference mic's track, use top and bottom shelving to get a similar bass/treble balance on the RE55 track. Flip the phase on one track and again seek the best null. Now, after a long, ear-relaxing break, A-B the tracks. Let us know your results. Of course all you're going to use them for is drums ... ;-) That's a great way to test, Roy. We'll see how it goes. Unfortunately, it will be tested in my "studio" with my voice. Neither is very good. Thirty years ago, I went into a radio station at which a friend was chief engineer. The guy on the air had a great voice and was sounding great on the air. In fact, the mic made his voice sound better than it really was. When I got there, I checked it out, and it was an RE55. I've never forgotten it. |
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Roy W. Rising writes:
snips In the early '70s the music director on The Lawrence Show insisted on a single RE55 for the drum kit. Placement was a few inches behind the top edge of the kick drum, essentially in the center of the kit. It sounded OK, but the player at that time did not give me a valid reference. I've often wanted to record drums with a clip-on lapel mic to hear what the player is hearing. Hi Roy - Occasionally I'll stumble across an old LW from the 70s on PBS, and be intrigued at the sound. It's clean and everything can be heard, and interesting that all or nearly every mic on stage is an EV product. I'm always curious: - was LW audio all live? Was anything pre-recorded with the band just playing along for the video? - if it was live, was it live-mixed to the VTR, or was it multi-tracked and mixed/sweetened later? (I could tell stories about trying to lock an MM1000-8 and MM1200-16 to an AVR2, but that's a tale best told another time! w) - were these done in a network studio, such as CBS Television City or NBC Burbank, or was an independent facility used? - what console(s) was being used? Much EQ or comp in use? - anything ever done in stereo? - recently caught a show from perhaps the late 70s that along with the EVs had what looked like three U47s in use on brass, but they appeared just a hair too skinny for 47s, yet too fat and not long enough to be the large-diaphragm AKGs of that era. Does that ring a bell? What was being used? - I never hear any reverb on the LW shows; I assume that was intentional, or was there limited access to live chambers or good spring reverb? (Quad-8 made a pretty good spring unit in those days, if you didn't hit it too hard. At that time digital reverb was rare (or didn't exist), sounded terrible, and cost the GDP of a small country. Never saw many plates in TV studios.) I love this audio history! Thanks for any enlightenment. Frank Stearns Mobile Audio -- |
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On 2/15/2012 8:26 PM, Roy W. Rising wrote:
I've often wanted to record drums with a clip-on lapel mic to hear what the player is hearing. For there was a fad to tape a PZM to the drummer's chest (hopefully to a shirt) to record the drums as he or she hears them. I guess it sort of worked, until people got into "detail" and wanted to hear the tail end of the decay of the bottom head on the toms. -- "Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge of audio." - John Watkinson http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com - useful and interesting audio stuff |
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On 2/15/2012 8:26 PM, Roy W. Rising wrote: I've often wanted to record drums with a clip-on lapel mic to hear what the player is hearing. For there was a fad to tape a PZM to the drummer's chest (hopefully to a shirt) to record the drums as he or she hears them. I guess it sort of worked, until people got into "detail" and wanted to hear the tail end of the decay of the bottom head on the toms. Tee hee! So many of the drum "classics" we celebrate were recorded so differently from what some folks demand. Solos aside, if we're listening to the details of the drums, we are missing the program. -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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On Thu 2012-Feb-16 01:22, Frank Stearns writes:
In the early '70s the music director on The Lawrence Show insisted on a single RE55 for the drum kit. Placement was a few inches behind the top edge of the kick drum, essentially in the center of the kit. It sounded OK, but the player at that time did not give me a valid reference. I've often wanted to record drums with a clip-on lapel mic to hear what the player is hearing. Occasionally I'll stumble across an old LW from the 70s on PBS, and be intrigued at the sound. It's clean and everything can be heard, and interesting that all or nearly every mic on stage is an EV product. Never had noticed that, but I've noticed that the audio holds up rather well, even if I don't care as much for Lawrence's arrangements. IT still stands up, no matter what I'm listening on, cheap internal speaker in a tv set; tv audio patched to stereo, etc. I'd be curious about a lot of things over adn above the questions Frank asked you Roy, such as monitoring in the controlroom, etc. Regards, Richard -- | Remove .my.foot for email | via Waldo's Place USA Fidonet-Internet Gateway Site | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. |
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mcp6453 wrote:
Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. And how is it? I haven't used one for years, I just remember using one on a guitar on stage and getting the cleanest sound, and with gain before feedback that was better than an SM-57... and wondering "how the hell do they do that with an omni?" --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 2/19/2012 1:25 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
mcp6453 wrote: Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. And how is it? I haven't used one for years, I just remember using one on a guitar on stage and getting the cleanest sound, and with gain before feedback that was better than an SM-57... and wondering "how the hell do they do that with an omni?" --scott I haven't gotten it yet. It should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday. |
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... On 2/19/2012 1:25 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: mcp6453 wrote: Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. And how is it? I haven't used one for years, I just remember using one on a guitar on stage and getting the cleanest sound, and with gain before feedback that was better than an SM-57... and wondering "how the hell do they do that with an omni?" --scott I haven't gotten it yet. It should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday. As a child, well almost, I was working at a radio station in Great Bend, Ks. A local C & W group wanted to record. We had a couple EV666's, several RCA 77DXs, and a whole bunch of 655s, which I assume were the predecessors of the RE55. I ended up using the 655s on everything but vocals. There was certainly no separation, but what the hey, we were recording to a monaural Magnacord. It turned out way better than it had any right to. Steve King |
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mcp6453 wrote:
Roy, please look for the post with questions for you from Richard Webb about Lawrence Welk. I'm anxious to hear your responses. I've searched on Richard's name but don't recognize the thread. Do you recall it's subject? -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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Roy W. Rising writes:
snips reed leakage and repeatedly had to ask my A2 to fix it. Finally, when the musicians were returning from a break, my A2 appeared to be tuning the violinist's instrument. After a brief hissy fit, the musician agreed not to touch *our* instruments. What an amusing way to handle that!! Dangerous, but great! The show was a great laboratory, it helped me refine techniques. So it was *all live*, no pre-records? How did you happen to land the gig for those three years? Any over-arching thoughts on how this experience contributed to those refinements? Thanks again for the history, Frank Mobile Audio -- |
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Hi Roy - Occasionally I'll stumble across an old LW from the 70s on PBS, and be intrigued at the sound. It's clean and everything can be heard, and interesting that all or nearly every mic on stage is an EV product. I'm always curious: - was LW audio all live? Was anything pre-recorded with the band just playing along for the video? - if it was live, was it live-mixed to the VTR, or was it multi-tracked and mixed/sweetened later? (I could tell stories about trying to lock an MM1000-8 and MM1200-16 to an AVR2, but that's a tale best told another time! w) - were these done in a network studio, such as CBS Television City or NBC Burbank, or was an independent facility used? During its years on the ABC-TV network, the show was produced at ABC's Television Center at Prospect & Talmadge in Hollywood. Syndication began in 1973 and the show taped at CBS Television City for a few years before returning to ABC's TVC. I mixed the show for the '71-'73 seasons. Throughout its history, the show was either live to the network or live to videotape. It was done "an hour in an hour" and tape stops were virtually forbidden. I recall Mr. Welk bragging when someone made a mistake ... "You see, my Musical Family is made of real people!" In the earlier years, pre-recorded material was done on the same stage at ABC on the day of the show taping. Later, pre-records came from an outside recording studio, where the show also rehearsed. When I joined the show, most of the numbers were pre-recorded. Slowly, Mr. Welk recognized the vitality of live performance and liked my work. In my third season most numbers were live, pre-recording was reserved for a few specific performers, plus large "production numbers" that would be more difficult to capture live. - what console(s) was being used? Much EQ or comp in use? A custom-built console by McCurdy Radio of Canada was in place from the late '60s into the '80s. EQ was simple Hi/Lo shelving plus 3- or 6KHz "haystack" mids, and limited to the 12 submaster channels plus two patchable spares. There were four LA-2As, I used one on vocals and one on bass. For the rest, I rode levels. - anything ever done in stereo? Maybe some later shows, I'm not sure. - recently caught a show from perhaps the late 70s that along with the EVs had what looked like three U47s in use on brass, but they appeared just a hair too skinny for 47s, yet too fat and not long enough to be the large-diaphragm AKGs of that era. Does that ring a bell? What was being used? I'm not sure, I think that was while the show was at CBS. - I never hear any reverb on the LW shows; I assume that was intentional, or was there limited access to live chambers or good spring reverb? (Quad-8 made a pretty good spring unit in those days, if you didn't hit it too hard. At that time digital reverb was rare (or didn't exist), sounded terrible, and cost the GDP of a small country. Never saw many plates in TV studios.) The PBS re-packaging of the show added some stereo reverb. ABC had EMT plates. When I joined the show, I was told "no reverb". I cheated on vocals, strings and woodwinds, and no one complained. Indeed, I would sneak into the room where the plate was located and advance the RT60 from the "standard" 2s to about 2.5s, restoring it after the show. I love this audio history! Thanks for any enlightenment. Frank Stearns Mobile Audio -- . Thanks for asking. -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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Roy W. Rising wrote:
One violinist insisted on angling his mic differently when he was seated. I always could hear the change in reed leakage and repeatedly had to ask my A2 to fix it. Finally, when the musicians were returning from a break, my A2 appeared to be tuning the violinist's instrument. After a brief hissy fit, the musician agreed not to touch *our* instruments. That makes my day, Roy! -- shut up and play your guitar * http://hankalrich.com/ http://www.youtube.com/walkinaymusic http://www.sonicbids.com/HankandShaidri |
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Roy W. Rising writes: snips reed leakage and repeatedly had to ask my A2 to fix it. Finally, when the musicians were returning from a break, my A2 appeared to be tuning the violinist's instrument. After a brief hissy fit, the musician agreed not to touch *our* instruments. What an amusing way to handle that!! Dangerous, but great! The show was a great laboratory, it helped me refine techniques. So it was *all live*, no pre-records? See my other post. How did you happen to land the gig for those three years? The politics of the time displaced me from the "big" shows ... Tom Jones, Pearl Bailey, Smothers Brothers, etc. and "dumped" me on the Welk show where my help was found welcome. Any over-arching thoughts on how this experience contributed to those refinements? Avoid "monkey-see, monkey-do". Just because it worked on "that" over "there" doesn't mean it will work on "this", here and now. Always have alternate tools in the kit, be ready to take a well-reasoned chance to learn. Also, "Keep your back to the knife so you'll know who is holding it". ;-) Thanks again for the history, Frank Mobile Audio You're welcome. -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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Roy W. Rising writes:
snips Any over-arching thoughts on how this experience contributed to those refinements? Avoid "monkey-see, monkey-do". Just because it worked on "that" over "there" doesn't mean it will work on "this", here and now. Always have alternate tools in the kit, be ready to take a well-reasoned chance to learn. Also, "Keep your back to the knife so you'll know who is holding it". ;-) Short and sweet; excellent, excellent advice. If I may, I might quote you in the future, with proper attribution, of course! Thank you again, Frank Mobile Audio -- |
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: Frank Stearns wrote: Hi Roy - Occasionally I'll stumble across an old LW from the 70s on PBS, and be intrigued at the sound. It's clean and everything can be heard, and interesting that all or nearly every mic on stage is an EV product. I'm always curious: - was LW audio all live? Was anything pre-recorded with the band just playing along for the video? - if it was live, was it live-mixed to the VTR, or was it multi-tracked and mixed/sweetened later? (I could tell stories about trying to lock an MM1000-8 and MM1200-16 to an AVR2, but that's a tale best told another time! w) - were these done in a network studio, such as CBS Television City or NBC Burbank, or was an independent facility used? During its years on the ABC-TV network, the show was produced at ABC's Television Center at Prospect & Talmadge in Hollywood. Syndication began in 1973 and the show taped at CBS Television City for a few years before returning to ABC's TVC. I mixed the show for the '71-'73 seasons. Throughout its history, the show was either live to the network or live to videotape. It was done "an hour in an hour" and tape stops were virtually forbidden. I recall Mr. Welk bragging when someone made a mistake ... "You see, my Musical Family is made of real people!" In the earlier years, pre-recorded material was done on the same stage at ABC on the day of the show taping. Later, pre-records came from an outside recording studio, where the show also rehearsed. When I joined the show, most of the numbers were pre-recorded. Slowly, Mr. Welk recognized the vitality of live performance and liked my work. In my third season most numbers were live, pre-recording was reserved for a few specific performers, plus large "production numbers" that would be more difficult to capture live. - what console(s) was being used? Much EQ or comp in use? A custom-built console by McCurdy Radio of Canada was in place from the late '60s into the '80s. EQ was simple Hi/Lo shelving plus 3- or 6KHz "haystack" mids, and limited to the 12 submaster channels plus two patchable spares. There were four LA-2As, I used one on vocals and one on bass. For the rest, I rode levels. - anything ever done in stereo? Maybe some later shows, I'm not sure. - recently caught a show from perhaps the late 70s that along with the EVs had what looked like three U47s in use on brass, but they appeared just a hair too skinny for 47s, yet too fat and not long enough to be the large-diaphragm AKGs of that era. Does that ring a bell? What was being used? I'm not sure, I think that was while the show was at CBS. - I never hear any reverb on the LW shows; I assume that was intentional, or was there limited access to live chambers or good spring reverb? (Quad-8 made a pretty good spring unit in those days, if you didn't hit it too hard. At that time digital reverb was rare (or didn't exist), sounded terrible, and cost the GDP of a small country. Never saw many plates in TV studios.) The PBS re-packaging of the show added some stereo reverb. ABC had EMT plates. When I joined the show, I was told "no reverb". I cheated on vocals, strings and woodwinds, and no one complained. Indeed, I would sneak into the room where the plate was located and advance the RT60 from the "standard" 2s to about 2.5s, restoring it after the show. I love this audio history! Thanks for any enlightenment. Frank Stearns Mobile Audio -- . Thanks for asking. That was a terrific read - thanks ! david |
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Roy W. Rising wrote:
Frank Stearns wrote: Hi Roy - Occasionally I'll stumble across an old LW from the 70s on PBS, and be intrigued at the sound. It's clean and everything can be heard, and interesting that all or nearly every mic on stage is an EV product. I'm always curious: - was LW audio all live? Was anything pre-recorded with the band just playing along for the video? - if it was live, was it live-mixed to the VTR, or was it multi-tracked and mixed/sweetened later? (I could tell stories about trying to lock an MM1000-8 and MM1200-16 to an AVR2, but that's a tale best told another time! w) - were these done in a network studio, such as CBS Television City or NBC Burbank, or was an independent facility used? During its years on the ABC-TV network, the show was produced at ABC's Television Center at Prospect & Talmadge in Hollywood. Syndication began in 1973 and the show taped at CBS Television City for a few years before returning to ABC's TVC. I mixed the show for the '71-'73 seasons. Throughout its history, the show was either live to the network or live to videotape. It was done "an hour in an hour" and tape stops were virtually forbidden. I recall Mr. Welk bragging when someone made a mistake ... "You see, my Musical Family is made of real people!" In the earlier years, pre-recorded material was done on the same stage at ABC on the day of the show taping. Later, pre-records came from an outside recording studio, where the show also rehearsed. When I joined the show, most of the numbers were pre-recorded. Slowly, Mr. Welk recognized the vitality of live performance and liked my work. In my third season most numbers were live, pre-recording was reserved for a few specific performers, plus large "production numbers" that would be more difficult to capture live. - what console(s) was being used? Much EQ or comp in use? A custom-built console by McCurdy Radio of Canada was in place from the late '60s into the '80s. EQ was simple Hi/Lo shelving plus 3- or 6KHz "haystack" mids, and limited to the 12 submaster channels plus two patchable spares. There were four LA-2As, I used one on vocals and one on bass. For the rest, I rode levels. - anything ever done in stereo? Maybe some later shows, I'm not sure. - recently caught a show from perhaps the late 70s that along with the EVs had what looked like three U47s in use on brass, but they appeared just a hair too skinny for 47s, yet too fat and not long enough to be the large-diaphragm AKGs of that era. Does that ring a bell? What was being used? I'm not sure, I think that was while the show was at CBS. - I never hear any reverb on the LW shows; I assume that was intentional, or was there limited access to live chambers or good spring reverb? (Quad-8 made a pretty good spring unit in those days, if you didn't hit it too hard. At that time digital reverb was rare (or didn't exist), sounded terrible, and cost the GDP of a small country. Never saw many plates in TV studios.) The PBS re-packaging of the show added some stereo reverb. ABC had EMT plates. When I joined the show, I was told "no reverb". I cheated on vocals, strings and woodwinds, and no one complained. Indeed, I would sneak into the room where the plate was located and advance the RT60 from the "standard" 2s to about 2.5s, restoring it after the show. I love this audio history! Thanks for any enlightenment. Frank Stearns Mobile Audio -- . Thanks for asking. Thanks for answering, Roy! My folks watched the show starting in its early days, and I remember it well. It was both the corniest thing I could never imagine and a wonderful conduit for some terrific musicianship, which I found fascinating well before I started playing guitar. I've read some about the show from time to time, well before I owned a computer. I went searchin' for additonal tidbits and here are link and a few quotes from a cursory exploration: www.welkmusicalfamily.com/welkhistory.html "In 1951, Lawrence and his band set out for an engagement in Southern California, and liked it so much he stayed...performing at the Aragon Ballroom in Santa Monica, where local TV station KTLA began broadcasting his performances. "Then in 1955...the ABC network came calling"... http://www.welknotes.com/WelkHistoryArticle.htm "The "Lawrence Welk Show" was both interesting and exciting to do. There was no rehearsal. It was a procedure of counting musical bars and switching and dissolving between three cameras, to the beat of the music, while referring to a special music cue sheet that Lawrence would provide each week. "The sheet had no music on it, but instead, a sequential listing of the band sections (musical instrument groups), along with the number of musical bars played by each, as each musical arrangement progressed. (i.e., 16 bars of violins, followed by 16 bars of brass section, followed by 8 bars of organ, etc. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk "Welk's musicians were always top quality, including accordionist Myron Floren, concert violinist Dick Kesner, guitarist Buddy Merrill, and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain. Though Welk was occasionally rumored to be very tight with a dollar, he paid his regular band members top scale - a very good living for a working musician. Long tenure was very common among the regulars. For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the show's run. He was noted for spotlighting individual members of his band and show. His band was well disciplined and had excellent arrangements in all styles. One notable showcase was his album with the noted jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawrence_Welk_Show "When the show began, it was billed as the Dodge Dancing Party from 1955 to 1959. During 1956-59, Lawrence Welk was broadcast two nights per week. The second show's title was Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent Show (1956€“58) and then Lawrence Welk's Plymouth Show, after another Chrysler vehicle (1958€“59). The Plymouth show was the first American television program to air in stereophonic sound. Due to the fact that stereophonic television had not yet been invented (it would be 25 more years before it would become standard), ABC instead simulcast the show on its radio network, with the TV side airing one audio channel and the radio side airing the other; viewers would tune in both the TV and the radio to achieve the stereophonic effect.[4][5] Starting with the 1959-60 season the two shows were merged into The Lawrence Welk Show, reverting to monaural broadcasts." -- shut up and play your guitar * http://hankalrich.com/ http://www.youtube.com/walkinaymusic http://www.sonicbids.com/HankandShaidri |
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I too was a regular Welk listener well into my teens. That may be
where I acquired a love for polkas (along with growing up on the south side of Chicago). Also ragtime piano, thanks to Jo Ann Castle. (Later, and more subtle, Josh Rifkin.) I don't claim to have had great ear abilities back then, but it always sounded clear and clean through the speaker in our RCA console TV, and that's more than I could say for a lot of programs. Roy, this would have been a few years before your tenure. Peace. Paul |
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On Mon 2012-Feb-20 21:57, hank alrich writes:
Thanks for answering, Roy! My folks watched the show starting in its early days, and I remember it well. It was both the corniest thing I could never imagine and a wonderful conduit for some terrific musicianship, which I found fascinating well before I started playing guitar. As with my folks, my grandmother wouldn't miss it! sOmetimes I'd be both attracted and repulsed by some fo the arrangements. Back when I was in high high school my mother read me Lawrence's biography "wunnerful wunnerful" iirc was the title. IT didn't touch a lot on the television years, but his years touring, growing up, etc. Thanks for the link, I sent it to mom. Thanks again to Roy for some of the technical details. Like Frank I'll probably quote his "lessons learned" as well with proper attribution in the future. Good thread! Regards, Richard -- | Remove .my.foot for email | via Waldo's Place USA Fidonet-Internet Gateway Site | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. |
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:20:10 -0500, Richard Webb wrote
(in article ): On Mon 2012-Feb-20 21:57, hank alrich writes: Thanks for answering, Roy! My folks watched the show starting in its early days, and I remember it well. It was both the corniest thing I could never imagine and a wonderful conduit for some terrific musicianship, which I found fascinating well before I started playing guitar. As with my folks, my grandmother wouldn't miss it! sOmetimes I'd be both attracted and repulsed by some fo the arrangements. Back when I was in high high school my mother read me Lawrence's biography "wunnerful wunnerful" iirc was the title. IT didn't touch a lot on the television years, but his years touring, growing up, etc. Thanks for the link, I sent it to mom. Thanks again to Roy for some of the technical details. Like Frank I'll probably quote his "lessons learned" as well with proper attribution in the future. Good thread! Regards, Richard -- Remove .my.foot for email via Waldo's Place USA Fidonet-Internet Gateway Site Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Regards, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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Ty Ford wrote:
One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Regards, Ty Ford "One Toke Over the Line" wasn't the only tune that was misunderstood. Somewhere I have a tape of Welk's "Green Tambourine" ... amazingly square for a round instrument. In the late '60s I remember catching the scent of cannabis in the show's dressing room area. -- ~ Roy "If you notice the sound, it's wrong!" |
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty Ford
wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. d |
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Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty Ford wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. As opposed to the Osmonds? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 2/22/2012 10:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Don Pearce wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty Ford wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. As opposed to the Osmonds? --scott The video was uploaded by Tom Shipley, of all people. |
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:35 -0500, Don Pearce wrote
(in article ): On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty Ford wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. d An update on Dick Dale: http://www.dickdale.com/history.html Regards, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:33:00 -0500, Ty Ford
wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:35 -0500, Don Pearce wrote (in article ): On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty Ford wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. d An update on Dick Dale: http://www.dickdale.com/history.html Never realised he predated Hendrix in using a right handed Strat, strung right handed but played left handed. Swingin' and Surfin' is still exciting. d |
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Roy W. Rising wrote: Ty Ford wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg "One Toke Over the Line" wasn't the only tune that was misunderstood. Somewhere I have a tape of Welk's "Green Tambourine" ... amazingly square for a round instrument. In the late '60s I remember catching the scent of cannabis in the show's dressing room area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-Ad2TwFZQ They do the flanging sounds with a fiddle! --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Back on the topic of the EV RE55: why would EV stop making, as far as I can tell, the RE55 or ANY successor omni, flat frequency response dynamic mike? Are there such things still available, at least at that price level? Most dynamic omnis seem to have large treble boosts or serious rough response wiggles. Doug McDonald |
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On 2/19/2012 1:25 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
mcp6453 wrote: Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. And how is it? I haven't used one for years, I just remember using one on a guitar on stage and getting the cleanest sound, and with gain before feedback that was better than an SM-57... and wondering "how the hell do they do that with an omni?" Now that I have had a little time to play, I can report that the mic has a very natural sound to it. I'm going to try a different preamp in the near future as the one I used is not very good. Unfortunately, the acoustics of my studio are not good. It's easy to tell it's an omni because of room reflections. Nevertheless, I can already tell that in a proper studio environment, this mic could be very useful. |
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On 2/23/2012 10:37 AM, Doug McDonald wrote:
Back on the topic of the EV RE55: why would EV stop making, as far as I can tell, the RE55 or ANY successor omni, flat frequency response dynamic mike? Are there such things still available, at least at that price level? Most dynamic omnis seem to have large treble boosts or serious rough response wiggles. Doug McDonald Just find one on eBay and buy it. The one I bought was not that expensive. When I got mine, the windscreen was crooked, and the screw holding the windscreen looked bent. However, I was quickly able to massage the windscreen into position. When I took the screw out, I found that it was not bent at all - it just wasn't screwed in correctly. Once I screwed it in, with the windscreen properly seated, the mic looks almost new. I assume it is is performing as a new one would. |
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Doug McDonald wrote:
Back on the topic of the EV RE55: why would EV stop making, as far as I can tell, the RE55 or ANY successor omni, flat frequency response dynamic mike? Because it costs a lot to make, and it's hard to sell in quantitites. Are there such things still available, at least at that price level? Most dynamic omnis seem to have large treble boosts or serious rough response wiggles. I talked to someone at Shure when they discontinued the SM80 omni condenser mike. The guy said they sold so many thousand SM81s that year, and nine SM80s. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:33:00 -0500, Ty wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:35 -0500, Don Pearce wrote (in ): On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500, Ty wrote: One of my favorite LW moments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg Holy crap, are they real? I think I'd rather go for this. At least you know she isn't doing it with her brother. d An update on Dick Dale: http://www.dickdale.com/history.html Never realised he predated Hendrix in using a right handed Strat, strung right handed but played left handed. I imagine that happened a lot. I've seen it in the wild twice. Swingin' and Surfin' is still exciting. d -- Les Cargill |
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mcp6453 wrote:
On 2/19/2012 1:25 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: wrote: Based on the accolades by Roy W. Rising (and because of an experience I had with one 30 years ago) I just bought an EV RE55. While I probably paid too much for it, they aren't exactly making them any more. It will be interesting to test it out. And how is it? I haven't used one for years, I just remember using one on a guitar on stage and getting the cleanest sound, and with gain before feedback that was better than an SM-57... and wondering "how the hell do they do that with an omni?" Now that I have had a little time to play, I can report that the mic has a very natural sound to it. I'm going to try a different preamp in the near future as the one I used is not very good. Unfortunately, the acoustics of my studio are not good. It's easy to tell it's an omni because of room reflections. Nevertheless, I can already tell that in a proper studio environment, this mic could be very useful. With an omni, you can get as close as you need to without any proximity effect. This will have all the ugly that goes with getting that close, but maybe that's better than room ugly. -- Les Cargill |
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On 2/23/2012 1:39 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Doug McDonald wrote: Back on the topic of the EV RE55: why would EV stop making, as far as I can tell, the RE55 or ANY successor omni, flat frequency response dynamic mike? Because it costs a lot to make, and it's hard to sell in quantitites. Are there such things still available, at least at that price level? Most dynamic omnis seem to have large treble boosts or serious rough response wiggles. I talked to someone at Shure when they discontinued the SM80 omni condenser mike. The guy said they sold so many thousand SM81s that year, and nine SM80s. There's a nice RE55 on eBay at the moment. |
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On 3/7/2012 10:51 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
There's a nice RE55 on eBay at the moment. How do you know thtat it's "nice?" Are you the seller? -- "Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge of audio." - John Watkinson http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com - useful and interesting audio stuff |
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On 3/8/2012 7:41 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 3/7/2012 10:51 PM, mcp6453 wrote: There's a nice RE55 on eBay at the moment. How do you know thtat it's "nice?" Are you the seller? Okay, there is a nice "looking" RE55 on eBay. No, I'm not the seller. |
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