HUDSON, OH – Hudson United Methodist Church musical director Leigh Conti is now using Astatic's 1700VP remote variable pattern boom-mounted microphone to enhance live and recorded audio quality for two weekly services – a traditional service with piano and organ and a more contemporary presentation with electric instruments.
"We had done a number of recordings of the choir and organ and other instrumental situations, and we weren't getting a full spectrum of sound. There was no bass; it was very tinny sounding," Conti said, adding that it didn't accurately portray what was actually going on.
Gary Dixon, Astatic's national sales manager, led Conti to try using the Astatic 1700VP to record the choir and amplify small groups of singers at the church, which has about 400 active parishioners.
"The microphone works exceptionally well for that purpose, with a very full spectrum of sound and an accurate response that I can use to critique my rehearsals or performances," Conti said.
"All along we'd been using a boom mic when I was playing piano and organ and singing," Conti added, "and I was having difficulty getting the microphone to balance correctly without falling down on the music, or being able to turn the pages without the mic getting in the way.
"So we started using the 1700VP when I'm singing, because it doesn't pick up too much of the piano, it picks up my voice very well and I don't have to be singing directly into it because of its extended pickup range," Conti said. "The mic has worked out very well for us and solved a whole lot of problems we were having."
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