Live at the Chapel with Richard Whatson

On Monday 23rd September, we observed the setting up of a "Live at the Chapel" session, which featured a pianist/singer as the main act of the night. Some of the RTU students helped set up the microphones for the piano and the vocals. The setup consisted of 2 CK90 condenser microphones for the piano, and a CK91 condenser for the vocals. The music tech team and RTU students did all of the equipment setup, with Paul Cobbold as the chief audio engineer. Richard performed the songs I know precisely, I'll do it tomorrow and Straight to video. All the songs were his own material, and were quite entertaining to listen to. There were a few problems initially, but they were sorted out in a short time. The problems were mainly because of camera 3 not working, and one song took 8 takes before the right recording was used. The night lasted about 3 and a half hours and it went rather smoothly.

Introductory session

Today, we learnt about how the live chapel events run on Monday evenings, and we talked about how we will have to eventually learn to set up the equipment and produce an entire performence live from the chapel. We listened to some previous recordings that were recorded about a year ago. In my oppinion, the recordings were well produced and the video and audio quallity was fantastic. We listened to acoustic folk, psychedelic rock and traditional blues.