Topic: Taping in an empty Auditorium

[Normsreality]

Friday night my band will be playing at a local church's 3000 seat auditorium. We are putting on a closed show for maybe 10 people at the most. The show is going to be filmed by several static cameras as well as 3 roaming cameras. The audio will be recorded from the soundboard for us by the house. I want to run my stand rig as well. My question is where to set up and the best mic config for that area. I will be able to set up anywhere in the place -one level flat floor, stage rises 5 feet from floor, SBD @ middle of the room.  I would like to avoid setting up right in front of the board as one of the static cameras is directly behind it and would have my stand in it's line of sight for every shot. Any advice would be great, and if any more info is needed just ask. Thanks

Travis

picked up a pair of Behringer B2 Pros the other day, so I can run with Fig 8 configs as well if anyone has suggestions for this.

[pfife]

sounds like it could be pretty sweet... now, if it were me, what I would do is use the most non directional mics you can, and in a nice, open config... I really like ambience, but since you are getting a sbd as well, it seems like a more ambient recording would go well with a sbd in a post-matrix...

just my $.02

[sml42]

If there is no crowd, why do you even need to run the main PA? (unless the soundboard is mixing a feed for the cameras). If it were me, I'd run split omnis onstage (which is sort of what pfife said).

[Kevin Straker]

Travis, if you need any help with this LMK. I'm not doing anything on Friday. I can do the aud portion of this if you want. Have a good one-kevin

[pfife]

with Kevin's help, you can run two rigs in different configs!  Could be pretty sweet!

[Kevin Straker]

I can bring my mk4's or I can try to bum some omnis from the waldron/scott/boswell triumvirate.

[jpschust]

what i might consider doing is some baffling to deaden the sound a touch.

[Normsreality]

Just got a call from a friend who owns a recording studio here in town. He is going to run a few rigs for us that night in various locations and all with 414s. So thanks for offering the help Kevin but it looks like its taken care of. We still need to hit a show together since you couldn't make the Tim Reynolds show last weekend.

[JiB97]

I would like to avoid setting up right in front of the board as one of the static cameras is directly behind it and would have my stand in it's line of sight for every shot.

That would be cool though!

[Normsreality]

I would like to avoid setting up right in front of the board as one of the static cameras is directly behind it and would have my stand in it's line of sight for every shot.

That would be cool though!

Did a little scouting and setting up at the venue yesterday and the camera I thought would give me trouble is off center to the left, so I will be setting up my rig and possibly one of my buddies rigs right beside if if he doesn't clamp onto my stand. And I agree it's gonna be really cool to catch a few rigs flying when we sit down to watch the video.

[dean]

If there is no crowd, why do you even need to run the main PA? (unless the soundboard is mixing a feed for the cameras). If it were me, I'd run split omnis onstage (which is sort of what pfife said).

QFT - absolutely!  If you can't split omnis, run healy method.