This great live performance at Prins Claus Conservatorium features Roland Daugareil (Violin), Anastasia Goldberg (Piano), Romana Porumb and Kostas Malamis (Violin), Sandor Antal (Viola) and Anne-Elise Thouvenin (Cello).
Audio, video & montage by Andrew Levine – http://mobile.blumlein.net/
Sound: 2 x United Minorities modified Oktava mk102 cardioid as ORTF, 1 x Neumann KM 184 as central cardioid, 1 x RoyerLabs SF-1 ribbon in the piano, 2 x DPA 4060 as ambient outriggers. Mic-pre & AD: Metric Halo ULN-8.
Video: 2 x Canon EOS 600D, 1 x Canon EOS 550D, Vivitar Series 1 70-210 2.8-4.0 for the closeups, Olympus 35-70mm 3.6 for the wide shot, Zeiss Distagon 35mm 2.8 behind the piano. All three vintage lenses modified by “Lensdoctor” Eddie Houston.
A/V Post: Conversion to Apple ProRes 422 with Apple Compressor, editing with Apple FinalCut Pro 7, H.264 encoding with elgato turbo.264 HD.
Some AltiVerb ambience added in post.
Audio was tracked at 24-96, mixed and rendered to 32-96 in Reaper, then down-sampled to 16-48 with the iZotope SRC in Audiofile Engineering’s Sample Manager.