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IBS Mic Placement Master Class Course Info
IBS Mic Placement Master Class Course Info
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London. 29th & 30th November 2008
The Institute of Broadcast Sound enables sound practitioners from all
fields of broadcast and related media to exchange views and assist each
other in their continuing professional development. It works to promote the
best practices throughout the industry and further afield (for example in
representations to the Government and regulators). The microphone
placement seminars are a regular feature of the Institute's development
programme which provides unparalleled access to members, and others,
who are experts in their field.
Pete Freshney MIBS As The Crow Flies mobile recording, with 40 years’
experience of recording live concert performances for radio and TV broadcast, as
well as for numerous commercial CDs.
1000-1115
Basic Theory – Chris Woolf MIBS
1115-1130
Tea & Coffee Break
1130-1245
Instrument polar diagrams (where the sound comes out...) -
Hugh Robjohns MIBS
Hugh presents a short lecture explaining the nature of sound generation in a
variety of musical instruments with a view to optimising the placement of
microphones.
1245-1345
Lunch
Group 1
Participants will be encouraged to experiment - put a mic where your ears tell
you it sounds nice! There are no right answers when it comes to mic placement,
though there are probably some wrong ones.
Group 2
This is the pantomime part of the seminar, where we learn how to fly through the
air, hide in dark corners and use sticky substances next to warm flesh!
Finish the session in clandestine style by becoming “Agent Johnson of the IBS”
when we sneak a peek behind the curtains of the covert camera show and
discover just how many places you never realised could be bugged.
1530-1600
Tea & Coffee Break
1600-1730
The Groups will then be reversed and the above repeated.
1730-1800
Q&A
Everyone comes back together and can interrogate Chris, Hugh, Pete and Richard.
Maida Vale Studios
The BBC's Maida Vale building was acquired in response to the rapidly
increasing requirements of broadcasting in the early 1930s.
Accommodation suitable for a large orchestra was needed and in 1934 a skating
rink in Maida Vale was converted into studio facilities. Like Broadcasting House,
the site had to be repaired after taking a direct hit during the London Blitz. On
22nd February 1953, it was visited by the newly-crowned Queen and the Duke of
Edinburgh.
Maida Vale is now the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and is used for
both performances and recordings of classical music and can hold more than
150 musicians, a choir of over 100 and an audience of 220.
Maida Vale Studio 4 is a creative haven within the main studio complex. It can be
configured to requirements and is an ideal environment to record, mix and
broadcast contemporary music styles.
Maida Vale 4 is mainly used to record rock bands for Radio 1's Zane Lowe and
Steve Lamacq shows. Maida Vale 4 is also famous for the late great Peel
sessions.
Places are limited to 40 people per day.
For the practical sessions you will be divided into two groups in order to
maximise your hands on participation.
The cost of this running this course is £250 per head, however
with the help of Skillset we have been able to subsidise the cost.
Any delegates who require financial assistance with the provision of a facilitator
or carer, or are returning back to work please enquire at the time of booking.