Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm

Oh dear what a cock-up!

Bill

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:41:46 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Oh dear what a cock-up!

Bill

Why, what happened?
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:41:46 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Oh dear what a cock-up!

Bill

Why, what happened?


Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

On 10/09/2011 11:11 PM, Rick wrote:

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:41:46 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Oh dear what a cock-up!

Bill

Why, what happened?


Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him
one that didn't appear to work at all.



i got the impression they could hear it in the hall, it just wasn't
connected to the bbc.

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Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

Rick wrote:

Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

Not quite correct. The substitute was clearly working OK for FOH,
but they didn't manage to route it to the broadcast feed. After
the second swap, there was an initial period where it was only
FOH, but then came through on broadcast.

Chris
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You just cannot rely on this modern crap these days. Are you sure thera are
such things as engineers?

Brian

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:41:46 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Oh dear what a cock-up!

Bill

Why, what happened?


Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:08:05 +0100, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Rick wrote:

Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

Not quite correct. The substitute was clearly working OK for FOH,
but they didn't manage to route it to the broadcast feed. After
the second swap, there was an initial period where it was only
FOH, but then came through on broadcast.

Chris

The conductor was just audible at full volume - that required some rapid
work on the control at mics were changed in case it came through full blast.
Some fumbling and cursing involved due to amount of lager in the way.
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whilst religions hold sway

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You just cannot rely on this modern crap these days.


Live Aid 1985?

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Rick wrote:

Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

Not quite correct. The substitute was clearly working OK for FOH,
but they didn't manage to route it to the broadcast feed. After
the second swap, there was an initial period where it was only
FOH, but then came through on broadcast.

Was the loud clunk the noise of the mic being plugged into the BBC, or the
penny dropping in the sound man's head as he realised that the problem
wasn't with the second mic? ;-)

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:11:43 +0100, "Rick" wrote:

Conductors radio mic was intermittent, then sound engineer handed him one
that didn't appear to work at all.

In 'the good old days' nobody bothered with radio mics. Given the number
of mics scattered around the performing area, why did they need one?

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