Live Concert audio aquisition

tbanucci

tbanucci

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Hi-

I'm going to be videotaping a live jazz performance of my brother in law at the end of this month for an addendum video for his upcoming CD release. The performance will be in a small jazz club setting without an audience.

The biggest problem is- this is jazz and the song can change every time it is played. It's not like I can record everyone doing what they do and then slap the original song over it.

So the plan is to record the performance live like 5-6 times and get all my shots in with 3 cameras going, then select the best version.

The big problem is when it comes to aquiring the audio for this performance. They will not be hooked into a sound board, and even if they were, the drums would not be. Should I go out of my way to rent a sound board or a technician to help me with the audio and a bunch of mics? My brother in law wants to do this on the cheap of course, so that would be the last route for me.

I have 2 DVX's, one with a Sennheiser MK-66, the other with a Lectrosinics Lav, and I plan on buying an iRiver mp3 recorder soon. Has anyone pulled off a good way to record a live performance with getting a decesnt mix and no overkill of bass through the mic?

Tips appreciated!
Thanks...
 
Re: Live Concert audio aquisition

good cardioid on the contrabas , good dynamic for sax , stereo par over piano , or some good pzm , dynamic on electric guitar , stero par over all grup (if you do ms , point the mid to the drums ) , if not another cardioid over all dram , in that case push the ms in front over all , if there i asinger , large diafragm cardioid
since you didnt mention how many people in the band , all the setup can change , the best solution is to bring some one who really did it befor :-)
 
Re: Live Concert audio aquisition

You should def use a mixer for this. You can pick up a battery operated field mixer for cheap and would offer you more channels than the way you're going to do it. Then You can patch the mixer output into the DVX.
 
Re: Live Concert audio aquisition

It was this weekend in NYC. Already shot it.

Here's an interesting story if anyone cares. Went through the soundboard initially for sound aquisition. The soundboard was full of static and we could not get rid of it, so as an alternative, I hooked up two mics that were in front of two of the three instruments directly to my camera and recorded that way. The group was super impressed with the sound and the clarity, and we ended up filming directly that way.

PS- It was a 3 instrument set: piano, bass, drums. Hooked the mics to the piano and bass. Drums were loud enough to be captured without a mic directly in front of it.

Ted
 
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