Saturday 04/20/2024
Spent 8-9am finishing editing of the lecture video from Wednesday night, and uploading it to Vimeo. The took Margaret’s Macbook and had iMovie output her Tanzania movie, which she has been obsessively editing for a few weeks, as an .mp4 file. This will make it much easier to show it tomorrow, I hope. I set up a quick zoom meeting on one computer, and from another I shared the video and it looked ok.
At 6 I went to help Bert set up for a concert. This was an unusual one, a first of a kind for us: the Top Shelf Big Band, a 20-piece orchestra. Previous concerts have had at most five musicians — string quartets plus piano, or piano, bass, guitar, like that. Lemme tell ya, when a real big band cuts loose, the are LOUD. Sitting just off stage left as we were, my ears were ringing afterward like I’d been to a Grateful Dead show.
This gave us AV guys some real problems, mostly in providing mics for the vocalists. They had three singers who performed on different numbers. The problem was getting a singer’s voice to be heard over the volume of the band. If Bert turned the mic up far enough when the band was in full voice, then when the band got quiet the mic would start to feed back. We just don’t have the problems normally but tonight we looked like rank amateurs. Which we are, amateurs, at least, and tonight pretty rank. But the audience was pleased in general.
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