I watched that last night on BBC 4. Anybody know why the drummer was surrounded by clear plastic screens? Were they expecting somebody to shoot at him? Was it some form of acoustic screening? Was it to protect equipment it would be difficult to run off stage with in the case of torrential driving rain (although I would have thought a conveniently placed tarpaulin would be better for that)?
"Nightjar
Did she get her t*ts out for the lads?
In article , Nightjar I watched that last night on BBC 4. Anybody know why the drummer was
Acoustic screens to help prevent him 'spilling' on other mics. Surprised you haven't seen them before on TV. You'd use something more effective in a recording studio - but those would block off the view of the drummer. ;-)
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk:
On a similar vein I have sometime seen heavy metal bands use a mic stand which has what looks like a plastic tube alongside the microphone. Any ideas?
that's a talkbox. Use the mouth as an acoustic cavity to modfiy the guitar sound
is the classic example...
Beat me to it sir!
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Vocoder?
I THINK vocoder is a slightly different animal than a talk box. Not sure
I stopped watching music regularly on TV when they dropped Pan's People from TOTP :-) Presumably then they either didn't worry so much about it or the other mics were less sensitive to the large sound peaks that I assume are the problem with percussion.
TOTP was all mimed. I attended several of them (GF in the beeb)
Occasionally the singer sung to a backing track.
The "Talk box" was originally called a "Mouth Waa" from what I remember.
The tube contains a speaker, and by holding their mouth close to it and the microphone, the tonal qualities of the note can be changed in real time by the performer.
A vocoder is a box of electronics that uses generated tones to modulate a voice. The earliest use I remember was in Sparky's Magic Piano.
I was more interested in Pan's People :-)
It's a VoIP codec;)...
As popularised by Peter Frampton on his 1976 hit, "Show Me The Way"
Weren't we all! (Poofters aside, I mean.)
So was I - Especially Sue. (Or was she Legs and Co)
Cursitor Doom wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Many thanks for the info and I enjoyed the YouTube clip
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