Painterspoon
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I'm directing a production of Les Mis at my high school starting in February, and our current system is a 16-channel Allen and Heath board that we connect to our 13 Sennheiser body mic packs. Our snake has 16 XLR cords. So there go 13 of our 16 channels right off the top. I have been through the nightmare of backstage mic tradeoffs with every show we've done and I would like not to have to do that again, because Les Mis will be a disaster going this route. Is there a way to incorporate another system, maybe one that can plug into one channel in the board but come with its own individual volume controls? I think standalone systems like this exist - I'd love to be able to just tack on 16 more body mics into one channel on our board, but maybe I'm dreaming. I just can't rely on ambient mics to adequately pick up chorus without picking up our live pit orchestra more.
Someone please tell me that this is miraculously solvable...
Someone please tell me that this is miraculously solvable...