tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155987862009-05-12T20:26:34.567-07:00The Life and Times of...mouserecordinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299953450396532878noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15598786.post-70362417529250980192009-05-12T20:25:00.001-07:002009-05-12T20:26:32.773-07:00

This evening Dan and Michael Fisher are on-location at Dobson High School capturing the wonderful sounds of the Dobson High School Orchestras under the direction of Rob Nichols, Rob Lubbers and Jon Haggard.

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This afternoon Dan was on-location in Tempe recording a "Talent Day" performance by students of vocal coach Linda Spevacek.This was the first test run of our new recording rig featuring our Millennia Media HV3D-8 Microphone Pre-Amplifiers, Mytek Digital 8x192 ADDA converters, Nuendo 3.2 and our new Tascam DV-RA1000HD. The new setup sounds amazing and will allow us to make even better recordings

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Today Dan and the team were on-location at All Saints Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona for American Bach's annual Good Friday performance. This year’s performance featured The Passion According to St. Matthew under the direction of Scott Youngs.This year we took on the added roll of webcasting the entire performance. While this was mostly an experiment to see if anyone would watch, it was

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This afternoon Dan was on-location at the Phoenix Zoo recording the primere performance of The Sustainable Symphony under the direction of Brian Viliunas.The performances started off in the early afternoon with various musicians performing for Zoo patrons and animals all around the park. Then with a trailing audience the 40 musicians performed Beethovens Symohony N0. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 and

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Yes, we love new toy day, and we are very excited to welcome a new Mytek Digital 8x192 ADDA to our collection.The Mytek will become a centeriece of our new recording rig to be debued in about 2-3 weeks. This new system is designed primaritly for large ensemble recordings and it will act as an expansion to our larger rig taking it up to 24 analog inputs.Not only does this give us another 8

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Today Dan was in Tempe, Arizona recording the newly formed Sustainable Symphony under the direction of Mr. Brian Viliunas. While today’s performance was just a scaled down preview, it looks like there are great things to come from this ensemble.The audience of about 25 enjoyed a performance of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring in its original version for 13 instrumentalists.The Sustainable

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Today Dan and Michael Fisher were on-location at Pinnacle Peak Presbyterian Church capturing the wonderful organ sounds of Mr. Jones. While some works featured Jimmy on his own, other works were acompanied by voice, brass, violin, percussion and classical guitar.This recording should be heard soon on Phoenix's own KBAQ.

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This evening Dan and Michael Fisher were back with Arizona MusicFest and Dick and Peter. With a combined 120+ years these 2 cats probably have more music memorised then most of us will ever play. With an entierly different audience, the music was entierly different.....great for us, too bad for everyone who did not have the opertunity to take both night in and hear every wonderful note :)

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Today Dan and Michael Fisher spent the day at Grey Hawk golf resort in preperations for an evening concert with 2 Jazz greats Dick Hyman & Peter Appleyard.Something magical happens when you take 2 seasoned cats (each playing over 6 decades), and put them on the stage together with a piano and a set of vibes.This is the first of 2 performances and the beginning of 7 events that we will be a part

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Today Dan was on-location in Scottsdale running a webcast for the American Law Institute - American Bar Association aka ALI-ABA.This is a slight change from our normal projects in that we were switching and broadcasting live audio and video for web casting around the country.This is the first of three events that Dan will be running this year.

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This afternoon Dan spent a couple of hours working tracks with one of Mouse Recordings first clients, Yun-Ting Lee. We first met up with Yun-Ting while he was a student at Coronado HS and performing with the Phoenix Youth Symphony. Since then he has spent the past 6 years at the Cleavlend Institue of Music....we thought he was great back then and he has only gotten better.Keep a look out.....

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This evening, Dan, Mike and Mike....were all at Dobson High School. Neither Dobson or Mike are strangers to our blog, both are regulars and contribute greatly to Mouse Recordings successes.The evening featured performances by the Dobson Percussion Ensemble and Symphonic Band.The evening featured a typicaly wonderful performance with a special twist. The Dobson Symphonic Band gave the World

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This Evening the full crew was at Dobson High School capturing sounds from the Jazz, Concert and Wind Ensemble Bands.We will be back in a couple of days for part two.

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This evening Dan was on location at Dobson High School capturign the sounds of their annual step-up concert with their feeding junior high schools.We also took this opertunity to audition some of our new microphones. The entire performance was captured by 3 pairs of microphones including 2 pairs of Tube microphones as well as our trusty Royer R-122 ribbon microphones.This was also the first

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New toys are always fun and we have certainly been fortunate enough to add a few of them over the summer.Today, we recieved 25 new microphones!!!! 20 of them are doing to Dobson High School for their front marching ensemble project and 5 are being added to our mic locker.Here is what we got:(2) TNC ACM1200 - Multi-Pattern Large Diaphram Tube Microphones, think AKG c12 :)(2) TNC ACM310 - Cardioid

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This evening Dan was on-location at Dobson High School recording the seasons first orchestra concerts.

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This afternoon Dan spent some time with Arizona Music Fest director Bob Moody editing some audio clips together for a "preview" event later this evening. Dan will also be on-site to play back the clips for the attending sponsors.While the formal performance announcements have not been announced, I will tell you that there is a lot of wonderful music to look forward to. This should be an exciting

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Today Dan scored another great deal with the purchace of a Beyerdynamic M69N(c) Hyper Cardioid Dynamic Micrphone and two Whirlwind IMP2 direct boxes......the closet is getting full.....36 and growing.

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This evening, Mike was on location at Dobson High School recording their first program of the season featureing, Persussion, Jazz and Concert Band ensembles.

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Today Dan added nine new members to the microphone family.The list includes:Neumann TLM103Oktava MC-012 (x2)Oktava MK-012-1 (x2)Oktava 012Shure SM57 (x3)Needless to say we got an incredible deal, infact we could sell the Neumann for almost twice what we paid for all nine :)

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Today Dan spent a little time with Arizona School for the Arts director, Craig Westendorf assembling tracks on to CD's for submission to the Arizona Music Educators Conference.Craigs ensemble is sure to impress and we wish them luck in recieving an invitation to perform.

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In Arizona, if you ask for an Organist, chances are the name Sue Westendorf will be at the top of a very short list. As an organist she has perfoemed with virtualy every professional and countless amature ensembles throughout the state.Today Dan spent a couple of hours editing material with Organist Sue Wesdendorf. Over the summer Sue took advantage of the wonderful organ and recording hardware

mouserecordinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299953450396532878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15598786.post-22212597456805336422008-08-13T19:35:00.002-07:002008-10-04T19:39:19.358-07:00

Today Dan made a great purchace on some usefull microphones:Sennheiser e604 (x4)Sennheiser e608 (x4)Sennheiser e609AKG SE300b with CK91'sThe microphone locker is looking good these days.

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Today Dan spent some time with Scott Youngs editing a recording from his choirs recent trip to Italy. The recording was made with a simple hand held device in an incredible sounding room. The audio will become the background music for a DVD Slide Show with over 1000 pictures from the trips adventures.

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Today Dan spent a couple of hours editing some recorded tracks with organist, Sue Westendorf.Sue has literaly played for everyone in the valley, and while we usualy hear her as an accompanist today she shined as a solo performer on some amazing works. Her goal is to simply have a product for thoes interested in what she can do. And trust me, she can do it all.The best part is we were not editing

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