I used to work for the pipe organ company that serviced this organ. This was back when Gloria was still organist. She always loved this instrument and was wonderful to work with. Despite having hundreds of organs under our care, this was always one of my favorites. We were Austin installers, so I was involved with numerous Austin organs. I always was impressed by their tonal design, voicing, as well as their mechanical design and layout. Very easy organs to service, and reliable. Their windchest and action design was very unique, and completely proprietary to the company. I had the pleasure of servicing a few of their walk in airlock style organs, which were excellent as you could enter and exit the windchest without powering down the organ, allowing one person to do a service call very efficiently. Sometimes I miss those days.
What are you using to record the pipe organ audio? Is that just done on a cell phone? It sounds very dynamically compressed, which really takes away from the performance. I've noticed your other videos suffer in this regard as well. Consider using a stand alone field recorder like a Zoom H5 which records with much higher quality and dynamic range. Compression totally destroys the sound and makes it sound lifeless.
We have been using a Rode mic that is connected to our Sony A6400 for the last 7 months. It's been the best mic I have had on the program. Sadly because there is no funding for the channel, I can't just go out and buy anything. From episode 1 through episode 7 audio was recorded on a phone with a mic hooked into it. We have upgraded since then. I want to upgrade again to mics with phantom power but it's all about the cost. For now we try our absolute best to make it sound as good as we can get it.
YES! YES! THE MUSIC MAN IS BACK!
Nice hymns and views of the pipes and console
I used to work for the pipe organ company that serviced this organ. This was back when Gloria was still organist. She always loved this instrument and was wonderful to work with.
Despite having hundreds of organs under our care, this was always one of my favorites. We were Austin installers, so I was involved with numerous Austin organs. I always was impressed by their tonal design, voicing, as well as their mechanical design and layout. Very easy organs to service, and reliable.
Their windchest and action design was very unique, and completely proprietary to the company. I had the pleasure of servicing a few of their walk in airlock style organs, which were excellent as you could enter and exit the windchest without powering down the organ, allowing one person to do a service call very efficiently.
Sometimes I miss those days.
Epic opening piece!
I've always loved this fanfare. You can't go wrong with it. Lemmens knew what he was writing for sure.
do you have a new logo?
I did update it slightly. Somehow you have insider information. How do you know?
What are you using to record the pipe organ audio? Is that just done on a cell phone? It sounds very dynamically compressed, which really takes away from the performance. I've noticed your other videos suffer in this regard as well.
Consider using a stand alone field recorder like a Zoom H5 which records with much higher quality and dynamic range. Compression totally destroys the sound and makes it sound lifeless.
We have been using a Rode mic that is connected to our Sony A6400 for the last 7 months. It's been the best mic I have had on the program. Sadly because there is no funding for the channel, I can't just go out and buy anything.
From episode 1 through episode 7 audio was recorded on a phone with a mic hooked into it. We have upgraded since then. I want to upgrade again to mics with phantom power but it's all about the cost. For now we try our absolute best to make it sound as good as we can get it.