Tunes in Texas

Today was my first serious engineering gig in about 8 years... recording Steve and Newman's music with the wind ensemble at Tarleton State University. This job went off without a hitch, but it was a textbook case of improvisation and grace under pressure...

We didn't have tall enough mic stands, so we bought dowels at a hardware store and taped 'em to the stands. We had shipped down a DAT machine, but we didn't have any DAT tapes... so we recorded to CD-R and Steve's laptop. The left speaker had a blown woofer, so we ran the whole session on headphones. There was no way to hook up a talkback system, so we hooked up a Clearcom headset and cranked it as loud as it would go...

But the band played great and I think we get some good tracks down... tomorrow we'll start editing...