our theater rents lavs for our productions twice a year... the most we've ever rented is 17 (actors without lavs would just stand near actors that had them and sort of project into it - not terrible sound for a cast of 35, but not the greatest system), unfortunately, there is only one business locally who rents them... $35/day... doesn't seem like a lot, i'm sure, but on our limited budget (we get about $20k total per show), almost $4200 for the week nearly killed us... we were wanting to look at other options for micing our next show (a cast of 45 - all of which need to be miced somehow)... possibly overheads???
our stage is 40' wide by 20' deep plus a 10' apron... we're raising the floor because of an inset turntable, so i'm afraid to put down floor mics for fear of picking up too much echo (even though i'll put down homosote between the plats and flooring)... our orchestra is housed in an acoustic room behind the stage (not in a pit) and fed through monitors on stage and into the house...
i've gone through past posts here and found a couple pertaining to issues like this, but it seems that almost every time there is pressure to go with lavs rather than overheads... i'd like to open a new discussion on it and hopefully learn more about how to use overheads (since we never have), which are best for our situation, and things like that...
ANY tips and information would be greatly appreciated!!!
thank you...
dan'l
our stage is 40' wide by 20' deep plus a 10' apron... we're raising the floor because of an inset turntable, so i'm afraid to put down floor mics for fear of picking up too much echo (even though i'll put down homosote between the plats and flooring)... our orchestra is housed in an acoustic room behind the stage (not in a pit) and fed through monitors on stage and into the house...
i've gone through past posts here and found a couple pertaining to issues like this, but it seems that almost every time there is pressure to go with lavs rather than overheads... i'd like to open a new discussion on it and hopefully learn more about how to use overheads (since we never have), which are best for our situation, and things like that...
ANY tips and information would be greatly appreciated!!!
thank you...
dan'l