Re: Speaker arrangement for small theatre?
While we're sharing videos... I'm not supposed to have uploaded this (not the whole show, anyway), so hopefully this (unsearchable) YouTube link won't leave this forum, but here's the production of Les Mis that I worked on last year with an award-winning local student (age 13-23) summer program, with a mixture of MM-PSM-Ls, MKE2s, Acacia Audio LIZPROs (cheap E6 clones), and a solitary DPA 4061 (on Valjean). Total of 28 G2 and G3 wireless into an X32 with an 01V as a band pre-mixer, and the custom QLab/OSC/Python-script mute automation I wrote about at the time over in the X32 thread. We had a kick-ass Nexo speaker rig (borrowed, PS15s on stands at the sides, couple of PS8s on the floor at the corners of the stage thrust as fill) but I never could quite get the boominess out of the voices, particular those with mics on cheeks (we tried hairline as well, but the room - an octagonal dome with hard walls - was so live that we were too close to feedback for my liking, so went back to cheeks). Much of the sound on the video is from a pair of condensers on tall stands at the back of the hall (maybe 40' back from the stage, 10' apart, set up by the video guy), but with clean vocals and band mixed in later. Unfortunately, some of the un-mic'd ensemble stuff still got lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVd1NkSH1pQ (showstopper solo number at 1:59:30)
I would like to hide the mics better than this for N2N as the place is much smaller. I'll give the chin thing a try, for sure.
OK, now we're WAY off topic! 
