TheAngryFedora
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Hey- a couple of questions in this post. I'm designing Urinetown at my school, which is going up in a few weeks. We need to reinforce the actors. They aren't cutting it. The director does not want to use body mics unless it's absolutely necessary, and in that case this post will be unneccesary (although still beneficial for my own knowledge).
We have seven AT cardioid choral-type condensers, which I was thinking of using as area mic's. The problem with those is that the spread is too wide, not allowing (what with our placement) for much targeting capabilities. I need, for example, to pinpoint a couple of actors directly center stage singing to each other over two small ensembles just stage right and left of them. The cardioids will pick up the soloists, who are TOTALLY drowned out right now- or, whose lines are barely audible- as well as the people around them, which is not at all good.
I've been looking at hypercardioids and shotguns. I've heard something along those lines might work. Condenser. What I am puzzled by, however, is just how this would work. I know it has better noise rejection capabilities, but I don't know how successful something like that would be as an area mic. Any thoughts?
Also, shotguns are often supercardioid, I think. Different from Hypercardioid??
Lastly, any suggestions on mic's to check out for areas if it comes to that? Wireless will be fine if we need them, we can get the necessary gear, and I've got it all plotted out in case. But, the area mic's need to be fully explored before I can say for sure whether we need lav's (since the show then takes on a whole new element sound-wise, where every solo line with music behind it will be mic'd for the sake of consistency.)
Well, thank you for any responses, and I apologize if this is a bit convoluted- I'm fairly exhausted.
-Ben
We have seven AT cardioid choral-type condensers, which I was thinking of using as area mic's. The problem with those is that the spread is too wide, not allowing (what with our placement) for much targeting capabilities. I need, for example, to pinpoint a couple of actors directly center stage singing to each other over two small ensembles just stage right and left of them. The cardioids will pick up the soloists, who are TOTALLY drowned out right now- or, whose lines are barely audible- as well as the people around them, which is not at all good.
I've been looking at hypercardioids and shotguns. I've heard something along those lines might work. Condenser. What I am puzzled by, however, is just how this would work. I know it has better noise rejection capabilities, but I don't know how successful something like that would be as an area mic. Any thoughts?
Also, shotguns are often supercardioid, I think. Different from Hypercardioid??
Lastly, any suggestions on mic's to check out for areas if it comes to that? Wireless will be fine if we need them, we can get the necessary gear, and I've got it all plotted out in case. But, the area mic's need to be fully explored before I can say for sure whether we need lav's (since the show then takes on a whole new element sound-wise, where every solo line with music behind it will be mic'd for the sake of consistency.)
Well, thank you for any responses, and I apologize if this is a bit convoluted- I'm fairly exhausted.
-Ben