TheAngryFedora
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Yes. It is true. I strongly dislike our wireless system. There is nasty feedback, we can't find an effing frequency that works properly, when actors move around on stage it cuts in and out. I have no idea what to do about this. I do a fair bit of home recording and I suppose I know a decent bit about theatre audio from close to a year of experience, but I certainly do not know nearly as much as this learned tech/techie/technician community. Community of tech people. Yes. That should avoid controversy.
So, what could be the problem? And what could rectify said problem? We may be getting in touch with some professional people to come in and take a look, but as the sound designer for the play which will need said microphones I would like to know what the heck is going on while these people are here and, if possible, help them out. Or, maybe I could even fix it. But I doubt that.
One problem that we have with our headsets (which are not wireless) is that we pick up portugese television due to pipes that run throughout our school acting as an antenna. Could that be causing interference on our stage? Could it just be that we have crappy mic's? They're Sennheiser, I don't know much about them. I doubt that it's the mics though. We just put on the Laramie Project, and an actress needed a mic for a scene. We used a really nice Shure that our TD's brother gave us/lent to us. It didn't work all that well. It worked even worse for an actress who lost her voice and had to be mic'd for her monologue. It was awful, I felt terrible for her. And, as I was not running the show, I couldn't cut the mic... so the sound op just kept it up while I banged my head against a wall. It was painful. We need to fix our wireless system before February (Wonderful Town), so any advice is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks so much
Ben
So, what could be the problem? And what could rectify said problem? We may be getting in touch with some professional people to come in and take a look, but as the sound designer for the play which will need said microphones I would like to know what the heck is going on while these people are here and, if possible, help them out. Or, maybe I could even fix it. But I doubt that.
One problem that we have with our headsets (which are not wireless) is that we pick up portugese television due to pipes that run throughout our school acting as an antenna. Could that be causing interference on our stage? Could it just be that we have crappy mic's? They're Sennheiser, I don't know much about them. I doubt that it's the mics though. We just put on the Laramie Project, and an actress needed a mic for a scene. We used a really nice Shure that our TD's brother gave us/lent to us. It didn't work all that well. It worked even worse for an actress who lost her voice and had to be mic'd for her monologue. It was awful, I felt terrible for her. And, as I was not running the show, I couldn't cut the mic... so the sound op just kept it up while I banged my head against a wall. It was painful. We need to fix our wireless system before February (Wonderful Town), so any advice is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks so much
Ben