Hi everyone, I'm Mike Benonis, and I go to Stone Bridge HS (the same one Dave went to). For our first play this year (Feiffer's People, for those who care), I'm experimenting with using a number of cameras to film the production, so we can edit it down later for various things. The problem I'm having is how to get consistent sound to the cameras.
Here's what we've come up with so far:
We take a group output from the board (Spirit 24), and run that down from the booth to a splitter of some kind. I've toyed with various ideas here, from a bunch of lovely Y-cables, to a press box, to building our own press box. Does anyone have ideas for this? From there, I'll distribute the signal to the 5 cameras in the house, and on each one I'll build a custom XLR female to 1/8" adaptor cable (we're dealing with library-grade cameras here).
We're also going to have a camera on the catwalk, and I was thinking we could "hijack" an intercom cable run and use that to send the audio up (to avoid messy cable runs).
Does this sound like a feasible plan? Does anyone have any suggestions to improve on it?
Thanks,
-Mike
Here's what we've come up with so far:
We take a group output from the board (Spirit 24), and run that down from the booth to a splitter of some kind. I've toyed with various ideas here, from a bunch of lovely Y-cables, to a press box, to building our own press box. Does anyone have ideas for this? From there, I'll distribute the signal to the 5 cameras in the house, and on each one I'll build a custom XLR female to 1/8" adaptor cable (we're dealing with library-grade cameras here).
We're also going to have a camera on the catwalk, and I was thinking we could "hijack" an intercom cable run and use that to send the audio up (to avoid messy cable runs).
Does this sound like a feasible plan? Does anyone have any suggestions to improve on it?
Thanks,
-Mike