Aerodrums outdoors in daylight
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:45 pm
I would like to report that I have successfully performed a gig outdoors in daylight. We started in the early evening and we played under trees, there was no direct sunlight coming in, but like you can see on the photos (in the second part), the sun is still reflecting from the house-walls behind and beside us.
The 21th of Jun we have here in France the day of “La Fête De La Musique”. There are bands playing everywhere, on the streets, in parks, bars, etc.
With some friends we wanted to play in front of a bar place Dugommier in Paris, and this year I really wanted to use my Aerodrums for this event.
The place is complicated for an Aerodrums performance, even at night-time. On one side are big windows from shops, on the other side and behind are streets with a lot of cars and street-lights. Two years ago I already wanted to do just a little performance with my Aerodrums at the same place, but it was impossible because of all the lights and reflections. My advice for everybody who would like to do the same, never go to an important gig without having tried Aerodrums there before and in real light-conditions.
This time I was prepared much better. We’ve bought three elements of this (1), attached together with adhesive tape forming a trapeze, stabilised with an extensible curtain rod on the open side using also adhesive tape and after we wrapped around 3m x 3m of blackout curtain and fixed it with safety pins. In the middle element we have put a powered speaker (Mackie Thump 15) (2).
It was a windy day, but the weight of the Mackie was enough for keeping everything on the floor.
But there was still a lot of light coming in from both sides. I had big red stains on my setup-screen from the top to the bottom, moving around and changing it’s sizes, surely because of the trees moving in the wind. Very difficult to eliminate with the new feature. But here’s the solution I’ve used:
I created a mask; using my thumb and index finger I was forming an arc and hold it in front of the camera the way that it covered all problematic regions and let after Aerodrums do the rest in eliminating all together. The resulting screen had been something like that (3).
. . . to be continued
The 21th of Jun we have here in France the day of “La Fête De La Musique”. There are bands playing everywhere, on the streets, in parks, bars, etc.
With some friends we wanted to play in front of a bar place Dugommier in Paris, and this year I really wanted to use my Aerodrums for this event.
The place is complicated for an Aerodrums performance, even at night-time. On one side are big windows from shops, on the other side and behind are streets with a lot of cars and street-lights. Two years ago I already wanted to do just a little performance with my Aerodrums at the same place, but it was impossible because of all the lights and reflections. My advice for everybody who would like to do the same, never go to an important gig without having tried Aerodrums there before and in real light-conditions.
This time I was prepared much better. We’ve bought three elements of this (1), attached together with adhesive tape forming a trapeze, stabilised with an extensible curtain rod on the open side using also adhesive tape and after we wrapped around 3m x 3m of blackout curtain and fixed it with safety pins. In the middle element we have put a powered speaker (Mackie Thump 15) (2).
It was a windy day, but the weight of the Mackie was enough for keeping everything on the floor.
But there was still a lot of light coming in from both sides. I had big red stains on my setup-screen from the top to the bottom, moving around and changing it’s sizes, surely because of the trees moving in the wind. Very difficult to eliminate with the new feature. But here’s the solution I’ve used:
I created a mask; using my thumb and index finger I was forming an arc and hold it in front of the camera the way that it covered all problematic regions and let after Aerodrums do the rest in eliminating all together. The resulting screen had been something like that (3).
. . . to be continued