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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kim Watson" data-source="post: 50416" data-attributes="member: 41">Re: Musicals...Theater is something I have delved into on occasion (read as dragged kicking and screaming!!). When we have done them we usually stick the mic to the side of the face or over the top in the hair if the actor has costume changes. (mainly for convenience of getting changed and not ripping the mics off the face as they do). Most of the lavs I'm dealing with are omni directional..... so when 2 people come together on stage to get some quality in the audio I found myself dropping one of them to get rid of the comb filtering, they pick up everything. Coming from a rock and roll background I went to a proper theater show (big stage show) and was actually shocked at how quiet it was. I had been mixing the shows too loud. chatted with the FOH guy and stole some ideas for my next theater gig. He eq'ed the rig with the main graphic with music..... so all the music sounded good. then he had a group set up with a graphic on it purely to deal with the ringing out of the Lav mics. he set all the mics up on the front edge of the stage on chairs..... all turned on and started pulling frequencies. channel strips were high passed quite high. When I did the SIM3 course with Meyer..... Magu told us about a trick where you can eq each mic flat(er)...... use SIM, Smaart, Satlive etc and a measurement mic as the Reference and the lav as the measured..... stand in front of the measurment mic and make noises SSSSSH and ahhhh etc...... to get a frequency response curve for the mic.... lets you see what needs cutting etc. This lets you get any mic tonality out on the channel (for each mic) before doing the ringing out with a graphic. It does work and I found myself pulling less on the graphic. Kim x</blockquote>

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