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Tim McCulloch

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Re: Advice needed for choir/orchestra - delay needed?
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2012, 12:19:37 AM »

Thanks everyone, exactly.  I plan to only reinforce the soloists in the front to balance the natural sound of the choir and orchestra (no delay), but reinforce everything in the back, with delay.  I'll have to learn how to use a click track. 

They did this performance several years ago and they only mic'd the soloists through the house system and the sound was not balanced in the back at all.  I didn't think about separate delay for the choir vs. orchestra but that makes sense.  I plan to use a stereo pair each for the choir and orchestra; hopefully that will give me enough flexibility.  I can't easily do more than that. 

And yes, my big concern is making sure I have the equipment I need to do this.  I wasn't sure if 50 ms would be enough to warrant delay.  With speech I think there could be intelligibility problems, but with music I'm not sure.  I am considering buying some new equipment and want to make sure it can do what I need.

Thanks.

This is one of the applications where a digital mixer with delay on each input and mixing bus or group can give a real advantage.
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Re: Advice needed for choir/orchestra - delay needed?
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2012, 12:26:12 AM »

This is one of the applications where a digital mixer with delay on each input and mixing bus or group can give a real advantage.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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Re: Advice needed for choir/orchestra - delay needed?
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2012, 11:39:57 AM »

... I wasn't sure if 50 ms would be enough to warrant delay.  With speech I think there could be intelligibility problems, but with music I'm not sure...

50ms delay between two identical music sources is very noticeable (and very annoying) to me.
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Re: Advice needed for choir/orchestra - delay needed?
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2012, 11:46:21 AM »

50ms delay between two identical music sources is very noticeable (and very annoying) to me.
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Re: Advice needed for choir/orchestra - delay needed?
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2012, 06:04:47 PM »

Great, thanks, good to know!
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