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Topic: Organteq in full action in the Anglican Church of Marseille

Hello,

This is a playlist with 4 videos showing the digital organ which I built  last spring (using Organteq) in full action:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P...kb0GhpfxrZ

The recording does not reproduce perfectly the beautiful/deep  sound we had in the church.  For two reasons:
First, I am an ignorant mathematician, not a sound engineer.
Second, for the recording I had only 3 mics, whereas the sound system has 8 (eight) speakers, namely:
- Two powerful full range speakers in front of the church, and 
- 2+2 high/middle range speakers + 2 massive subwoofers mounted behind the church, at about 3 m heigh!
Since our church is quite small, I use a simple stereo system, so only 2 channels (3 speakers per channel).

The distance between the two front speakers and the six rear speakers is about 12m. For the connection I used a 20 m long ethernet cable and 2 baluns. No signal strength loss, no noise, perfect synchronisation! 
The whole  investment for the organ (including the 8 speaker sound system and the Italian made pedalboard) was about 5 500€, whereas restoring the old UK made pipe organ would cost many tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of €! 
Best regards,
Andrei

P.S. The image from the left is taken using a 200€  PTZ Tenveo camera (bought on Amazon) and the image from the right (which shows the manuals) is taken using an iPhone connected wirelessly to my Mac.  This explains the latency of the recording from the right.

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Re: Organteq in full action in the Anglican Church of Marseille

It’s really exciting to hear Organteq played and recorded in an actual room. It sounds completely different compared to listening with headphones at home. Thanks a lot for sharing the recordings—I’d love to hear more!

One more question: Is there no real organ in the church?"

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Re: Organteq in full action in the Anglican Church of Marseille

Klangpost wrote:

It’s really exciting to hear Organteq played and recorded in an actual room. It sounds completely different compared to listening with headphones at home. Thanks a lot for sharing the recordings—I’d love to hear more!

One more question: Is there no real organ in the church?"

Thank for your kind comments!
Yes, we do have a real organ pipe organ in the church. Our old organ is manufactured by  Henry Speechly & Sons (Camden Organ factory, London) in 1860. It has 11 stops  distributed on two 58 key manuals and a 30 key pedalboard. I succeeded to fully repair the wind supply, which is now functioning perfectly. But the organ is still not functional because several keys and several stop buttons get stuck. When you press certain keys,  they remain activated even when you  release  them. The same with certain stop pistons. Moreover, the pipes have not been cleaned since more than 30 years, so I doubt the they are well tuned.  We contacted an organ builder to have an estimate for the renovation, and we are still waiting for the answer.  But we know that very probably the wind chest has been affected by humidity (rain water), which means that a full renovation might be very expensive!

Our new digital organ is a dream.  Organteq runs on a  powerful M4 MacMini hidden in the console, which means that we have very low latency.

Here are several other recordings:

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/fr-f...842551A13A

Note please that  these older recordings were made when we had a weaker speaker system in the church. The base was not sufficiently strong. For these recordings I used a simple iPhone for both image and sound.

With kind regards,
Andrei