Week 5

31st August 2007


This was the first time in what seems like a long time that we had not done Hello Riverina, we finally saw the back of it and I think most people were very excited to do something new. This was also the first time that we also swapped roles halfway through class, which I personally enjoyed as it allowed me to fine tune particular roles and also allowed people who drew the short straw with their positions to have a chance of taking part in more involved roles too. This week I was in Sound and on camera. It was interesting being able to use three lapels and the boom in a new setup where I had free reign on when and where to use them. All went well but we briefly had some troubles with sending foldback to the boom.
On camera it was a different story and a big learning curve. Having student directors blocking our exact positions proved to be difficult at first but was happy with the confidence they ultimatly gained after gaining a bit of confidence. Peter G directed me in this and I found his correlation with the FM to be more important today than ever before.
Due to the problems with involved with the boom foldback I research routing to auxillaries.

The Auxiliary send routes a split of the incoming signal to an auxiliary bus which can then be used with external devices. Auxiliary sends can either be pre-fader or post-fader, in that the level of a pre-fade send is set by the Auxiliary send control, whereas post-fade sends depend on the position of the channel fader as well. Auxiliary sends can be used to send the signal to an external processor such as a reverb, which can then be routed back through another channel or designated auxiliary returns on the mixer. These will normally be post-fader. Pre-fade auxiliary sends can be used to provide a monitor mix to musicians onstage, this mix is thus independent of the main mix.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_console#Auxiliary_send_routing