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Re: Event Board Recording SNAFUIt sounds like someone "helped" convince her to ask for all of her money back between when you talked to her the 1st time (25% discount) and the 2nd time. Your problem with this job brings up a bigger issue: how do we as an industry deal with the potential unreliability of wireless technologies? Although it doesn't seem that all of the mic problems were from wireless drop outs (seemed like some missed cues as well) the fact that there are problems with mics dropping out is real and many laymen clients don't understand the situation the way seasoned professionals do. In this case you had an event with a very important segment that only lasted a few minutes and it pretty much had to be done with wireless mics. Those are the hardest. It doesn't surprise me that something went wrong (just out of curiosity, what wireless were u using?). I'm surprised the video editor didn't use some camera mic mixed in. That might have saved it. Of course, it may have been the video co who convinced the client that the sound co was entirely at fault. In that case they wanted the sound to be as bad as possible when they showed it to the client.Also, did the sound tech have to work out the switch from handheld to headset near the beginning of the song? That might have been a source of distraction.
Re: Event Board Recording SNAFU
It sounds like someone "helped" convince her to ask for all of her money back between when you talked to her the 1st time (25% discount) and the 2nd time. Your problem with this job brings up a bigger issue: how do we as an industry deal with the potential unreliability of wireless technologies? Although it doesn't seem that all of the mic problems were from wireless drop outs (seemed like some missed cues as well) the fact that there are problems with mics dropping out is real and many laymen clients don't understand the situation the way seasoned professionals do. In this case you had an event with a very important segment that only lasted a few minutes and it pretty much had to be done with wireless mics. Those are the hardest. It doesn't surprise me that something went wrong (just out of curiosity, what wireless were u using?). I'm surprised the video editor didn't use some camera mic mixed in. That might have saved it. Of course, it may have been the video co who convinced the client that the sound co was entirely at fault. In that case they wanted the sound to be as bad as possible when they showed it to the client.
Also, did the sound tech have to work out the switch from handheld to headset near the beginning of the song? That might have been a source of distraction.
