ddproduction Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Anyone see the last 15 mins of the BBC Proms? And anyone 'in the know' have an explanation? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushypeas Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 What did I miss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddproduction Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 The conductor's mic packed up halfway through his speech, was replaced by a technician but the 2nd one was only working on the house system, then they brought a 3rd one out that was working on the house and OB feeds ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushypeas Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Argh the year I decide not to watch 'the usual bits' something interesting happens. I would have thought careless engineering, or is that a bit unfair? It'd depend on how the OB was routed/sourced. Eg. spare mic on new channel not routed to subgroup for OB? By the way I know nothing of how the OB is done hence the stab in the dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddproduction Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well neither do I but I thought it would be simpler to re-route the feed rather than get ANOTHER spare mic? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&L Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well neither do I but I thought it would be simpler to re-route the feed rather than get ANOTHER spare mic? ;) To me, using my ears and judging by the audience continuing to applaud the conductor's comments, I could hear the sound system in the hall faintly thro another mic and the audience reacting to it as tho they continued to hear fully,...while viewers lost sound from the mic. the sound tech replaced the mic which continued to work thro the hall sound system and which the audience continued toreact to while we at home still heard the mic faintly...a pause then the light dawned perhaps that the problem was with the OB line after the split or that they hadn't lifted the fader on the new mic channel, someone corrected by swapping channels or lifting the fader and hey presto we at home had sound again. Now from my position way down the food chain working amateur local live sound that's how it seemed but others on this board have far more experience than I, added to which I have NO OB experience as others do so maybe someone who saw what happened will give more informed opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 *YAWN* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 As Brian says.... :) Something broke, someone fixed it, nobody died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbsy Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Yawn indeed. Hands up anyone in the industry who hasn't had a mic (radio or even wired) die at a bad moment and had to fix it on the fly. It's part of the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_hate_fisicks Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I assumed that he gave him the first mic back again; he told him not to hold it at the bottom. Presumably the other one wasn't patched to the truck for whatever reason. It's good to see that whatever level of the industry you're working at, this sort of crap still happens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinE Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 It started dropping out, a bit at first then getting worse. The audience and conductor were obviously aware of it becasue the crowd started jeering before the engineer swapped the mic. At least they had spares!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I had a lamp blow during a show once.... (there is no sarc-mark yet in the smilies selection...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 I had a lamp blow during a show once.... Yeah, but were you sufficiently prepared to have not just one but two standby lights rigged, just in case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 In this industry (and most others!) the closer you are to the problem the LESS you should say especially in a public place like a web forum. At most gigs those present are either employees or contractors, and both groups of people will have confidentiality clauses in their engagement paperwork -- so you simply don't say things. With a major event and a major broadcaster it's likely that there are several fallbacks for the most critical things, maybe only a couple of fallbacks for less critical pieces. If you haven't had a technical problem then you probably haven't had a long career. HOW you cope is the important aspect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacethebase Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Easily done. Mute the channel on the OB console before mic switch and forget to open it. Like other's have said it happens and it happens to everyone could be me or you next time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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