DavidIngraham
Member
Hello Control Booth!
This is my first post, but I have been following the forums for a while now. Just for some background, I run all of the sound for my school's choir program. I have never had any formal training, but I have picked up a lot and done quite a bit of research over the past 3 years. We do one huge variety show every year, and alternate between a musical and a musical review every spring. We also do two choral concerts every year.
At all of these events, everyday in class, and at many more random events, assemblies, etc. throughout the year, It is a huge pain for our 24 person jazz choir to set up and take down 24 wired handheld microphones and cables.
The best system that we have figured out so far is to run all 24 of these microphones into a 24 channel yamaha board on stage, and then feed that into our foh mixer.this works rather well, but because we don't have a 24 channel snake, we have to keep the board on the stage. We ordered a 24 channel snake, but it never arrived. However, even with a 24 channel snake it still takes way too long for everyone to plug in their microphones in order and get back to their positions. Because we practice on-mic pretty much every day, it takes a lot of classtime to get setup and clean up.
The director and I are trying to decide If it would be worth it to invest in a set of wireless mics. We realize that this would be a very large investment, and are taking this very seriously. The fine arts department get's around $17,000 a year that is only to be spent on equipment. We can probably get around $5000 of that a year for the choir program.
Currently, we have 5 Shure SLX handhelds in the G4 band (470–494 MHz). Under ideal conditions, Shure says that you can run 12 systems in each band. I was thinking that we could buy 3 more in this band, then eight in both the G5 (494–518 MHz) and G5 (494–518 MHz) bands. Would this work? Or does anyone have any ideas for a better way to deal with the wired mics?
I forgot to mention that we have 22 jacks on our stage and a 24 channel board at FOH.
Thanks!
This is my first post, but I have been following the forums for a while now. Just for some background, I run all of the sound for my school's choir program. I have never had any formal training, but I have picked up a lot and done quite a bit of research over the past 3 years. We do one huge variety show every year, and alternate between a musical and a musical review every spring. We also do two choral concerts every year.
At all of these events, everyday in class, and at many more random events, assemblies, etc. throughout the year, It is a huge pain for our 24 person jazz choir to set up and take down 24 wired handheld microphones and cables.
The best system that we have figured out so far is to run all 24 of these microphones into a 24 channel yamaha board on stage, and then feed that into our foh mixer.this works rather well, but because we don't have a 24 channel snake, we have to keep the board on the stage. We ordered a 24 channel snake, but it never arrived. However, even with a 24 channel snake it still takes way too long for everyone to plug in their microphones in order and get back to their positions. Because we practice on-mic pretty much every day, it takes a lot of classtime to get setup and clean up.
The director and I are trying to decide If it would be worth it to invest in a set of wireless mics. We realize that this would be a very large investment, and are taking this very seriously. The fine arts department get's around $17,000 a year that is only to be spent on equipment. We can probably get around $5000 of that a year for the choir program.
Currently, we have 5 Shure SLX handhelds in the G4 band (470–494 MHz). Under ideal conditions, Shure says that you can run 12 systems in each band. I was thinking that we could buy 3 more in this band, then eight in both the G5 (494–518 MHz) and G5 (494–518 MHz) bands. Would this work? Or does anyone have any ideas for a better way to deal with the wired mics?
I forgot to mention that we have 22 jacks on our stage and a 24 channel board at FOH.
Thanks!