[Newspoetry] call for tripod, long RCA cables: wednesday rehearsal

[Joe Futrelle]

Hey, I have a mixing board of the Mackie 1202 variety which is
lendable. I believe it has two sets of RCA outputs.

Any word on the overhead projector?  Could I swipe the one that's at
OJC (on loan from ... MBI?  Someone?)

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 09:30:31AM -0500, gillespie william k wrote:
> TECH GEEK ECSTASY!
> 
> I've assembled the equipment I think we need, although Mike's mixing board
> is flawed in that it has a stereo headphone jack which WON'T let you
> listen in stereo - it will only output one channel at a time. 
> 
> (shakes head sadly in wonder)
> 
> I don't get it, but at least it HAS a headphone jack which is more than I
> can say for the camera or minidisc recorder...
> 
> Does anybody have ... a LONG pair of RCA cables..?
> 
> a camera tripod...
> 
> The plan is to collect sound through Mike's mikes and mixing board, feed
> it into the minidisc recorder, and (ideally two pairs of RCA cables out of
> the mixing board as opposed to a pair out the back of the minidisc
> recorder (since at some point the minidisc will get full and stop
> recording and cut off the sound going into the camera....
> )
> )
> 
> Thus we have a good recording on minidisc and the best possible audio on
> the tape itself - we use the minidisc to make sound files and the video to
> make video files and need not necessarily mess with synching up sound and
> video from different sources, merely offer the viewer / browser / client /
> reader a choice of good sound or mediocre video / sound.
> 
> How fun is that?
> I guess we'll find out tonight.
> 
> 
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