http://www.themodernmusic.com/2009/02/c ... -2009.html

What a strange thought. Will have to give it a listen. There were a couple of cuts off the new Kora album that interested me musically.

As a self confessed Kora fan and someone who owns a couple of old crusty Cab Vol vinyls this is a pretty amazing thought!

I really have to get a copy of this somehow...

kora do nothing for me, but this definitely has my curiosity piqued.

Speaking of Kora, I just scored a job recording their live show at the Town Hall in Wellington in December where they are playing with Strike, the percussion group. Should be a heap of fun. Doug, you should come down for this and shoot it!

wow score! They are really nice guys. Some of them are x-Whiti. Their manager is married to one of the guys in the band. She's pretty competent, I think that's one of the reasons they have done so well.

I saw this advertised and thought it looked like a hell of a lot of fun...

What are the dates/times etc. and I'll see if I can get down.

Fri 18 Dec, 7:00pm

http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2009/dec/w ... n-of-sound

how was it?

best gig in a very long time. HUGE sound and a real experience. Capture went well, so I'll have a listen through to it today and get it off to the guy who's mixing it. got gear porn photos of the FOH consoles and racks they were using, some amazing stuff, and Kora had a nord (stage/lead?), korg ms2000, andromeda, and somethign else on stage, but the 3 storey scaffolding setup for Strike was pretty damn cool.

you'll have to flick me a rundown on how they (and you) went about it at some point. mics/placements/tech/general capture stuff. sounds incredible.

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I can't talk much about mic type/placement for the stage, as I had nothing to do with that, I was fed groups from the consoles at FOH for my capture. Kora had a standard setup that I could see, Strike had mics attached to the scaffolds it looked like and lapel mics for all the drummers.

I was fed 26 channels overall to record, 14 from Kora, 10 from Strike and I had a stereo Room mic.

Kora FOH were on a Midas Heritage 3000 console, and Strike FOH were on a Yamaha PM5D digital console. I didn't see what they were running side of stage in the way of monitoring consoles. FOH racks were quite packed, including a lot of drawmer gates, dbx 160 compressors, a couple of Distressors, and what looked like a buzz audio optical compressor. a whole heap of effects in the other rack, but I wasn't particularly interested in those

Strike capture groups were split to Kick (those drums acting as kicks), Snare (ditto), Rack 1 and 2 (contact mics/mics on scaffold), Lapels 1 and 2 (mics on drummers I believe), Floor Instruments (Timpani, other things) and Marimba.

Kora capture groups were Kick, Snare, Full Drums L and R, Bass, Guitar, Keys L and R, 4xVox, EFX L and R.

We rigged a stereo room mic across the centre of the town hall, capsules 90 degrees from each other, pattern hyper cardiod pointing at the PA.
Neumann SM69 FET. Beautiful mic, I was in Awe

We ran the Neumann into an Amek Pure Path Dual Mic-amp Compressor-Limiter (squee!) then into line in's on the RME Fireface 800 (would have used the Amek converters, but had run out of digital inputs on the RME), 8 more channels of line in were used by strike, and the rest went into 2xPresonus D8 units and into the RME via 2XADAT, which was hooked up to my lappy via firewire and captured on disk through Reaper.
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