Last weekend, my remarkable multitalented wife along with her longtime musical cohorts, performed a show via live stream show from our multifunctional front room lounge
Trying to be helpful, I was wrangled into well, running the techie bits which honestly well… I made a list, a checklist for promotion (visual and text in both English in Japanese), lighting, vibes, tidiness as well as importantly, sound and video
Streamed on YouTube and Facebook and there were some hiccups getting the YouTube stream actually started (I don’t know man, I set it up, had it scheduled and then ended up having to start a whole new stream which was super frustrating but anyway… still good amount of people hanging out in the chat and plenty of views considering the short lead up time))
By the time we got to the encore, I made a sloppy quick video just to show as a reminder to myself how I set up:
- Ryoko’s iPhone 8 with an omnidirectional Zoom lightning mic on a tripod pushing the Facebook stream
- iPad on a tripod with a corded lightning mic (designed to be a lav but… in this case, planted strategically in a house plant) running the YouTube
{the room sounds good and the mic placement was aces (balancing between a flute and conga and piano and violin with one single mic is tricky but hey not bad)}
- then a Sony camera I’m still figuring out as more of a backup experiment
- two soft box lights on tripods, two lights on the back wall as motivation lighting and the back curtain clipped and sealed off
Ryoko was going to monitor the comments for between song banter but it was hijacked by the kids so I did sound checks and chat watching from this same phone
My hilarious and gracious father-in-law Mr. Fujita was the awesome audience / rambunctious Ichiro made a few appearances, and I did my best
Hooray for the Mae Maes: Ryoko (v), Hatsumi (fl), Rie (vln), Mitsuko (perc) & Keizaburo (piano)
find the whole live stream at their YouTube channel @maemaes9227
