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[Justice C. Bigler]

I've been mixing the local ballet's production of The Nutcracker for the last 8 years. This year will mark 9 years for me. I start my audio load in on the 8th.


You can read about my pretty much now standard set up on my blog here: Eight Years Mixing The Nutcracker


I'm looking for some suggestions on something different to do this year to make it more interesting for me. Any suggestions? The only thing that I am pretty much locked into is that I need 4 fold back monitors for the dancers, and that it needs to be reinforced in the house, and I can't fly mics over the pit as that would interfere with the lighting, spotlights, and sight lines.


Any suggestions?

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

I've been mixing the local ballet's production of The Nutcracker for the last 8 years. This year will mark 9 years for me. I start my audio load in on the 8th.


You can read about my pretty much now standard set up on my blog here: Eight Years Mixing The Nutcracker


I'm looking for some suggestions on something different to do this year to make it more interesting for me. Any suggestions? The only thing that I am pretty much locked into is that I need 4 fold back monitors for the dancers, and that it needs to be reinforced in the house, and I can't fly mics over the pit as that would interfere with the lighting, spotlights, and sight lines.


Any suggestions?

Run the tracks through a fuzz pedal?

[Justice C. Bigler]

Run the tracks through a fuzz pedal?

The ballet artistic director is basically deaf. I wonder if he would notice?

[Brook Hovland]

I've been mixing the local ballet's production of The Nutcracker for the last 8 years. This year will mark 9 years for me. I start my audio load in on the 8th.


You can read about my pretty much now standard set up on my blog here: Eight Years Mixing The Nutcracker


I'm looking for some suggestions on something different to do this year to make it more interesting for me. Any suggestions? The only thing that I am pretty much locked into is that I need 4 fold back monitors for the dancers, and that it needs to be reinforced in the house, and I can't fly mics over the pit as that would interfere with the lighting, spotlights, and sight lines.


Any suggestions?

Could you use a z bars or something similar to position mics over the pit?

[John Fruits]

Instead of coking the Marley, get really crazy and use Dr. Pepper instead??

[Dennis Wiggins]

I've been mixing the local ballet's production of The Nutcracker for the last 8 years. This year will mark 9 years for me. I start my audio load in on the 8th.


You can read about my pretty much now standard set up on my blog here: Eight Years Mixing The Nutcracker


I'm looking for some suggestions on something different to do this year to make it more interesting for me. Any suggestions? The only thing that I am pretty much locked into is that I need 4 fold back monitors for the dancers, and that it needs to be reinforced in the house, and I can't fly mics over the pit as that would interfere with the lighting, spotlights, and sight lines.


Any suggestions?

Disclaimer:  I have not read your blog, but will.

1.  Pre-determine, and highlight, the most important parts of their presentation.  You should know "the story" pretty well by now. 

2. Make it dynamic without making it a rock-show. Make sure that all spoken words are clear. 

3, Do not ignore "diminuitive" passages. There can be some real, memorable, gems there.

4. Pretend you are the audience.

-Dennis


Read some... Thassalottoahipricedbutnot allanddifferentpatteredmicstomanage!

[Justice C. Bigler]

Could you use a z bars or something similar to position mics over the pit?

What is a Z Bar? I assume you don't mean a Z shaped wardrobe rack...

[Justice C. Bigler]

Instead of coking the Marley, get really crazy and use Dr. Pepper instead? ?

I'm not on the props crew, so I don't get to decide what they do to the marley. I'm pretty sure that any sort of soft drink products on the dance floor would get me fire post haste.

[Justice C. Bigler]

Disclaimer:  I have not read your blog, but will.

1.  Pre-determine, and highlight, the most important parts of their presentation.  You should know "the story" pretty well by now. 

2. Make it dynamic without making it a rock-show. Make sure that all spoken words are clear. 

3, Do not ignore "diminuitive" passages. There can be some real, memorable, gems there.

4. Pretend you are the audience.

-Dennis


Read some... Thassalottoahipricedbutnot allanddifferentpatteredmicstomanage!

It's ballet, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. It's literally one of the most boring shows I have ever had to work on. There are no spoken words, except for the precurtain speech. I usually fall asleep while mixing the show. The artistic director like everything to be the same level...i.e. the soft passages as loud as the loud passages, so that he doesn't hear the foot falls of the dancers.


Also, they have many years previously cut the children's choir from the production, which is the best part of the whole show.

[Brook Hovland]

What is a Z Bar? I assume you don't mean a Z shaped wardrobe rack...

Its made for holding a mic to a guitar cabinet but depending on your pit design something like it could work for mic positioning  with out  affecting sight lines.   

http://www.thomann.de/gb/z_right_stuff_z_bar.htm

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