Topic: Soundboard Recording

[reorocks]

I wish there was a way to somehow pick up the soundboard feed like a radio broadcast. Maybe one day something like that will be invented.

[willndmb]

there kinda is already but most bands frown upon it

[Belexes]

Some venues have Assistive Listening Devices which people have patched into.  With shortwave radios, it's possible to tune into a wireless in-ear monitor of a band member, but that isn't from FOH, it's coming from monitor world and has a band member's own custom mix.

ALD recordings sound flat, mono-ish to me with no life.  They can be acceptable if matrixed with an audience recording.

[Chuck]

Dan Healy (long-time FOH mixer for the Grateful Dead) broadcast several shows using an FM radio band. From what I remember, he stopped doing for fear of getting in trouble with the FCC.

[sunjan]

I wish there was a way to somehow pick up the soundboard feed like a radio broadcast. Maybe one day something like that will be invented.

There sure is.
If you get permission from the band, you can hook up a Sennheiser G2 wireless transmission system to the soundboard, and plug in the receiver part to your recorder wirelessly.

The suggestion came up recently on the photo/video subforum, as a solution to sync an SB feed to a videographer doing open filming while moving around.

[Chuck]

I wish there was a way to somehow pick up the soundboard feed like a radio broadcast. Maybe one day something like that will be invented.

There sure is.
If you get permission from the band, you can hook up a Sennheiser G2 wireless transmission system to the soundboard, and plug in the receiver part to your recorder wirelessly.

The suggestion came up recently on the photo/video subforum, as a solution to sync an SB feed to a videographer doing open filming while moving around.

Does the G2 wireless transmission system cover the full audio bandwidth?

[sunjan]

Does the G2 wireless transmission system cover the full audio bandwidth?

Good question!
From the current models, there is a G2 receiver (camcorder mountable) that does 40-18,000Hz:
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/professional_wireless-microphone-systems_handheld-transmitter_ew-500-series_main_021631

Now they just launched the G3 series, which is only shipping in July. The specs improved a little bit at least:
"the audio frequency range of all G3 receivers now extended from 18 kHz down to 25 Hz"
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/press_releases_05112009