Equipment – Soundpost Acoustics

Packard Hall Recording System

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:00:16 +0000

Design and installation of new recording equipment is complete at Packard Hall for the Colorado College Music Department, just in time for their annual Summer Music Festival!

The new system features adjustable microphones on servoreelers, preamps and monitor control from Grace Design, and a Dante network for distribution of audio signals to other spaces in the building.

All this in addition to upgraded room acoustics finishes, improved sound isolation to the hall, and noise control improvements in the recording booth!

Here’s an audio sample we recorded on 16 June 2016:

Dvořák – String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48; I. Allegro moderato

http://spbackup.ctechstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dvořák-String-Sextet-in-A-Major-Op.-48-I.-Allegro-moderato.mp3

Equipment List

Microphones

(4) DPA 4011C (on servoreelers)
(2) Sennheiser MKH8050 (stereo pair on servoreeler)
(2) AKG 414

Microphone Preamplifiers

Grace Design m201 with ADC
Grace Design m802 with Dante card

Recording Interface/DAW

RME Fireface UFX
iMac/ProTools 12
Allen & Heath ICE16 backup recorder

Monitoring

Grace Design m920
Genelec 8030B

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The Big Red Balloon

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:31:19 +0000

We are fortunate to have lots of high quality equipment available to us for making acoustics measurements. We regularly use EASERA from AMFG for making impulse response measurements in rooms and to measure reverberation times and other useful acoustical parameters. Recently, we also have been using the AudioTools iOS app developed by our friends at Studio Six Digital for amazingly high quality measurements using only an iPad – a traveling acoustician’s dream!

However, all of these measurement approaches usually involve using a loudspeaker to create the test signal. Sometimes, the sound of the loudspeaker in the room is exactly what needs to be tested. Other times, we would rather have a sound source located where musicians are located, and a loudspeaker is either not readily available or really is not the best representation of the musicians’ sound anyway…

Enter the Big Red Balloon.

This humble device has been used for direct measurement of room impulse responses for a very long time. It’s reliable, loud, highly portable, and has good frequency response way down to the 63Hz octave band when you blow them up really big.

Did we mention loud? It is important to remember hearing protection and also to be sure that anyone who might be nearby knows that it’s just a Big Red Balloon going “bang!”

Here is a fun sequence of images showing this in action:

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Mobile Recording Rack

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:13:35 +0000

We are gearing up for a new season of recording projects, and are putting the finishing touches on a new mobile recording rack! For you gearheads out there, the system boasts a Grace Design m802 8-channel mic pre, Allen & Heath QU-16 digital mixer, Tascam SS-CDR200 recorder, and a Mac Mini running ProTools 11. The system has been optimized for live recording, but offers great flexibility for lots of upcoming audio production and technology development projects we have in the works… We especially like that it has wheels! A special thank you goes to Dan Gonko for his expert assistance with the ProTools system.

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