![]() ![]() ![]() Credit: New England Conservatory of Music) “Many times there are hectic stage change-overs, especially with concerts for our Contemporary Improvisation program, which tend to be more complicated.” (L-R) Jeremy Sarna Lisa Nigris Hannah Antolin Aaron Saidizand. “For many of our concerts, we record up to 32 tracks,” adds recording engineer, Jeremy Sarna, who has worked alongside Nigris for the last 18 years. I can organize different groups of musicians on the program into different track groups, then arm or disarm those groups as needed, all without interruption.” Recording engineer Aaron Saidizand finishes the thought: “So, one thing we’ve found incredibly convenient about Nuendo is the ability to record-arm tracks or track groups on the fly while the recording is running. If the concert gets done at ten o’clock at night, nobody wants to hang around until midnight, so one of the first things that attracted us to Nuendo was the offline bounce.” Prior to Nuendo, we had been using a widely known DAW that only offered bounce-to-disk in real time. “At the end of an evening, we can have two hours or more of material. “Recording live classical and jazz concerts, we’re not going in five-minute snippets,” begins Nigris. ![]() Lisa Nigris, director of the NEC’s audio-visual services, joined her staff of audio engineers to speak about why Steinberg software, accompanied by their Yamaha Nuage hardware, has proven the perfect fit for their needs. Since 2003, the school has relied on Steinberg Nuendo to record concerts in their numerous halls, theaters, and recital rooms, as well as WaveLab to introduce their students to computer-based recording. Since 1867, the New England Conservatory (NEC) has drawn young musicians from all over the world to Boston, Massachusetts to pursue composition, classical instrumental performance, and jazz improvisation.
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