The Little Match Girl

Location

The Center for Contemporary Arts Warehouse, Santa Fe NM

room type: Concrete and rock wall with concrete floor.

room dimensions: 150x50x25

room acoustics: Very strong but not unpleasant reverb with slow decay, slightly diffused by the presence of wooden bleachers and a few standing stage flats.

notes: This warehouse used to be where the Santa Fe Armory once repaired their tanks or something like that. I remember seeing bulk-loads of high voltage wires just dangling from the ceiling uncapped. The room was, now that I think of it, way too live with reverb to attempt to record a humble little audio book in, but at the time I thought it was pretty cool and being one our first recordings it was really the only place I had available.

Henning Hoffman later added music. Our thanks to him.

Session Gear

microphone: AKG C-2000 w/popstop

preamp: Mackie 1202-VLZ Pro

recorder: Sony Minidisc Walkman MZ-R55

headphone: AKG K240

Post

transfer: analog via standar Mac sound port

edit station: Macintosh G3-450 running ProTools Free