Re: Indoor/outdoor choir performance

"Claudio" <audiolomb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Hello there!
> What is the best mike to use to amplify a 40 people gospel choir (3 
> sections) indoor/outdoor?
>
> I would like to avoid feedbacks and try to capture as much as I can of
the 
> voice spectrum.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
>

Rather then write a short story i will direct you attention to:

http://www.prosoundweb.com/install/spotlight/choir/choir.shtml

http://www.crownauio.com/pdf/mics/mictech.pdf

http://www.shurenotes.com/how1/how1_choirmic.html

http://www.soundinstitute.com/article_detail.cfm/ID/24


Personally i use a variety of mics and tecniques as seems best for a given

situation.

For outdoor events foam windscreens will probably be manditory or the
whoosh 
of wind noise will be objectionable.

For low cost solution today I would use Begringer C2.  For situations 
demanding a more prestegious name brand, I would use Rode nt-5, Shure
SM-81, 
Audix ATX.51 or a condenser of like quality or better if avalible.

For hanging choir mics I like the Countryman Isomax series.

I have had sucess in taping the countryman mics to vocal stands in front 
with dynamic mics on top and normaly positioned. When somone coms forwared

to solo they just naturally sing or speak into the correct mic and when
they 
back off the choir mics pick up the zone.
the show can be suplimented with boundery effect mics and shotguns as 
needed.

Anyway you do it, running mics at a distance from a distance with 
loudspeakers in operation is one of the hardest things one of the hardest 
things to do in live sound without feedback