December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 35m
English
Making a Prop Tape Player Cueable |
Jonathan Cardone |
The sound quality of an inexpensive cassette tape player was a key element in a production of Antgone in New York at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Wanting to make a prop tape player sound as realistic as possible without sacrificing cueing or volume control, Sound Designer Kevin Hodgson came up with the idea of putting a wireless receiver in the tape player that the actors would use and transmitting a signal to it from the sound board. The wireless unit we found, the NADY 151 VR, is primarily used as a remote sound pickup for video camcorders. The NADY package contains two parts: a radio transmitter with a small lavalier mic, and a receiver with both line-level and headphone output jacks. I ...
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