Ocsac
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Having done mostly live music, I was recently given the opportunity to fill in running theater sound for a county school system arts center while they were between employees. They liked my work enough to give me a contract. This forum has been a great help in navigating RF management. (They had 18 wireless mics, but no RF management. I knew I was going to run into that one day.) I have several deca... I mean, a number of years as an electronics tech, including RF, but never had to coordinate 16 frequencies. Thanks to the forum for steering me to WWB, etc. I think the RF improvements I'm making helped get the contract. Many thanks to forum members here for past discussions on that topic.
A curious situation I found is that all their Shure SLX1 transmitters, with settings -12, 0, or mic, are set to '0'. The directors, as well as the students involved in theater tech are trained to use '0'. This results in preamp gains in the 20 - 30 dB range. I've experimented with the 'mic' setting, which lowers the gain needed to around '0'. Is this a six-of-one / half-dozen-of-another situation? Are there pros and cons to each setting? Can anyone think of a reason they would not use the 'mic' setting on the transmitter?
A curious situation I found is that all their Shure SLX1 transmitters, with settings -12, 0, or mic, are set to '0'. The directors, as well as the students involved in theater tech are trained to use '0'. This results in preamp gains in the 20 - 30 dB range. I've experimented with the 'mic' setting, which lowers the gain needed to around '0'. Is this a six-of-one / half-dozen-of-another situation? Are there pros and cons to each setting? Can anyone think of a reason they would not use the 'mic' setting on the transmitter?