Much of this depends on your exact situation. Click
track can be great if
monitor bleed cannot be heard by the audience. Likely a combination of additional rehearsal with final content, visual cues, and really percise
stage managment will yield your best results.
There is no way we can give you benificial
feedback about technological solutions, as you have offereed no information as to what your set up is, what equipment you have available, and other logistics.
~Dave
@Jon Majors @Jay Ashworth @DaveySimps Several decades ago, the repertory
theatre I was with had a scene which opened with several minions entering carrying various
props and two wandering lute players sauntering in with the crowd. At a designated time one lute player began to strum and was soon joined by his AF of M buddy. After they'd played several bars and one
pass through the main body of their song a multi-track recording of the Festival's full
orchestra had to join in in perfectly synchronized tempo. One of the lute players was Bruce French and the second was Terry McKenna.
How we accomplished this successfully performance after performance every time the production came up in rep'.
A scene prior, at their convenience, the two lute players got dressed with their costumes, makeup, wigs and wireless in ear monitors. An ASM would make sure everyone was ready and I'd
play their click
track and musical lead-in to their in-ears. If any last minute adjustments were required, that was the time. When it was time for their scene and entrance, at a
point cued by the calling SM per dialogue, I'd
roll the multi-track and the lute players listened to several bars of verbal count-in followed by approximately 20 bars of click
track leading to the pre-recorded AF of M sisters and brothers playing throughout the
theatre and all in flawlessly perfect sync and
pitch. This would've occurred somewhere around 1980.
EDIT: To add
@FMEng who posted while I was typing.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard