by Rev Tony Newnham » 23 Nov 2020 10:31
Hi Hugh
The headphones have become a necessity. When I started recording these hymns we all thought the covid thing would soon be over, so I just used fairly decent microphones, but of course they pick-up unwanted noises off. I investigated getting a direct output from the organ - there are 4 connections inside intended for use with external speaker systems, and various ranks can be routed to them, so I thought it would be easy. It's not, and it seems that there's no simple way of just sending a stereo signal to a pair of outputs without destroying the routing to the multiple internal speakers (seems like a basic requirement to me, but there you go). I've been in touch with a few people at Viscount, both here & in the USA with no success, so in desperation, I decided to use the headphone output - hence in order to hear what I'm playing I have to use headphones plugged into one of the cameras! Far from ideal, but at least it works.
Thanks for the positive comments. I dread to think how many times I've played that - and many other popular hymns - I've been involved in church music for 60 years next year, and started playing organ 2 years after that.
Every Blessing
Tony
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