last second help needed!

chris f

chris f

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first off i'll admit that i'm an idiot for waiting this late to ask this, but i'm doing a wedding video today and will be getting the sound off the board and everyone will be mic'd up and i worked with the sound man last night at rehersal and everything is perfect. however i have a wireless mic that i was going to have the groom wear just as a back up, but i'm starting to wonder/worry about whether adding this mic to the mix will run the risk of interfering with any of the other mics being used by the church. (i know i should have gone over this with the soundman last night, but like i said, i'm an idiot). any help would be extremely appreciated cause last night when i was sleeping i was having nightmares about not using the wireless mic and then having the sound board screw up or something, haha
 
It might only be a problem if there are other wireless mics in use. Even then, it is only a small chance that they will be on the same channel. Try to do a quick test before the event.
 
Sorry Quirk, but wrong answer.

Unless you're running multi-track ISO, you can botch the entire audio track if you get an RF hit on your wireless mic. So, if you're running into the camera, at least make sure you have your mics split appropriately between channel 1 and 2. This is why, when I was running my two track recorder, the boom always went L and all the wireless were summed R. That way I always had a clean boom track, regardless of what happened with the wireless (clothing rubs, RF hits, dead batteries, etc.)

Phil
 
i'm going to have 2 dvx's. one hooked up to the sound board, one not hooked up to anything, just on camera mic. and then i was goin to run the wireless mic to a seperate audio recorder that way all three ways of capturing audio were seperate. i should be fine with the one hooked up to the sound board, so i'm just doing the wireless as a safety, so my only real concern is that my wireless will interfere with the church's microphone during the ceremony (not for my sake, but for the church's)
 
In response to your question, yes it's a no-no to have two tranmitters tuned to the same frequency. As far as I know for all transceivers in our marketplace, the transmitters carrier wave is always present even if one transmitter doesn't have a microphone input - the FM receiver can't handle a secondary "jamming" frequency.

FYI - On another note, one useful tip I picked up from Bruce Williams was to run two mics to the pastor's podium, setting the gain about 10 dB hot (overmodulated) on one channel. When the pastor, reader, etc speaks with a booming voice all is fine on the normal channel and when the speaker has a soft voice, you can always edit using the second channel in post-production. A nifty idea where there's excessive dynamic range (the energetic minister)! Regards, Michael
 
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thanks for all the help, turns out they weren't using wireless mics, so there was nothing to worry about
 
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