| | 1 | = Microphone Placement |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | == Vocal Solos |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | See VocalSoloNotes. The placement is determined by the singer, there is nothing to do during setup. |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | == Choir |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | Still under experimentation. I think in practice the microphone array needs to be somewhat two-dimensional to reflect the two-dimensional nature of the choir arrangement, meaning there need to be e.g. two rows of microphones with each row of microphones capturing singers left to right in two choir rows. |
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| | 11 | == Vioins |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | Current setup: |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | - Violin 1 gets Rode NT5 |
| | 16 | - Microphone higher than the instrument, pointing down at around the center of the instrument. This requires a boom stand |
| | 17 | - Violin 2 has instrument-mounted microphone, no stand is used |
| | 18 | - Violins 3 and 4 get SM57 or available instrument mics, mounted the same as violin 1 |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | Oleg's notes: no changes under consideration at this time. Violins 1 and 2 are generally audible in the microphones. Audibility of violins 3 and 4 is uncertain. Violin 2's mic has lower output than NT5 used by violin 1, they need to be leveled otherwise which violin is heard by the audience is a matter of random chance. |
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| | 22 | == Viola |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | Current setup: unknown, presumably similar or identical to the violin setup. |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | Oleg's notes: viola is not very audible. It is also not present at rehearsals. Probably will remain inaudible way going forward. |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | == Cello |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | Current setup: I want to try AT815b (with the open center), horizontal, aimed just above the bridge. |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | Oleg's notes: cello is not very audible and there have been many issues with it being missing audio-wise at the 2023 concerts. I am of the opinion that the player is not playing the instrument very loudly, thus for example the AKG D112 simply does not pick it up very well, being designed for extremely loud sources (e.g. kick drum/bass amp). AT815b is a shotgun condenser microphone with a very focused pickup pattern that I am hoping will provide higher signal to noise ratio of the instrument to background and it wouldn't interfere with the bow movement. |
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| | 34 | Previous setup: AKG D112, SM57 pointed somewhere at the instrument. I am under the impression that people like to point instruments that are below shoulder level up (cello, clarinet) which is in my estimation causing excessive bleed of other instruments into the affected mics. |
