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Instrument and Vocal Microphone Techniques

A stereo pair, such as these Sennheiser MKH 8000 condensers, placed out and in front of the singers, can work equally well for either a duet or larger vocal group.

Instrument and Vocal Microphone Techniques

As the title suggests, this month’s column is all about miking of your instruments, vocalists and/or choir to enhance the overall message delivered to the congregants at your house of worship. I am not concerned with what make or model of microphones you’re using. I do have a list of manufacturers I like and use myself, but this month’s column is not about those companies. I am more interested in where you place your mics and how you use them.

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Illustration by Andy Au

The Emotional Mix

As audio engineers, we work in a business that is driven by passion and emotion. While audio engineers — in a perfect world — should have a zeal for their work, many required operations that are performed are devoid of such animated fervor. Flying a speaker array, setting frequencies for wireless units, running cables, patching a stage and ringing out a speaker system are a few of the things that come to mind that do not require a great or enthusiastic commitment on behalf of the engineer.

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Shakespeare’s The Tempest Gets Masque Sound Support in Las Vegas and Cambridge, MA. Photo: The Smith Center, Geri Kodey

Shakespeare’s The Tempest Gets Masque Sound Support in Las Vegas and Cambridge, MA

CAMBRIDGE, MA – For The Tempest, co-produced by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), based here, and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, sound designer Darron L West and associate sound designer Charles Coes turned to Masque Sound for audio system support. The play premiered under a big top tent in Las Vegas on April 1 and is now playing at the A.R.T’s Loeb Drama Center.

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Bartha Invests in Meyer Sound LYON System. Pictured here, the gear deployed for the Arbonne conference.

Bartha Invests in Meyer Sound LYON System

COLUMBUS, OH — Bartha, based here, recently purchased a Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system for its rental inventory. Bartha opted for LYON based on its promise as a powerful tool to optimize audio quality for corporate events in convention centers and arenas as well as indoor and outdoor music concerts.

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North Boulevard Church of Christ in Murfreesboro, TN is using an Allen & Heath GLD-80 mixer at FOH

Tennessee Church Using Allen & Heath Mixers to Meet Live Audio, Broadcast Needs

MURFREESBORO, TN — North Boulevard Church of Christ, based here, uses a high-quality live audio system in its main auditorium. The church also broadcasts its worship services over a local TV station, records them for use in a satellite church and provides simultaneous translation into Spanish and Chinese. To manage all these services, the church has a new sound and video system that includes a pair of Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixers.

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