During the first weekend of October I spent the whole weekend at the Opera House recording several sessions of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. One of them was for the BBC program The Forum. It was quite an interesting program about Australian stereotypes.
You can hear the program by clicking here.
Microphones used were the Neumann system made up of the KM100 phantom supply, with an AK40 cardioid head, with a gooseneck inserted between the 2. These sounded really good. Each person also wore a lapel mic for if they ever went off mic. When mixing this I was constantly riding the levels of each person, so that only the person talking at the time was at full volume to eliminate as much echo as possible. You have to be quick with the fingers doing this and sometimes you miss the start of a person's sentence, but it's the the risk you have to take. If you leave everyone's mic up at full volume there is just not enough clarity in the voices.
You can hear one of the voices is quite echoey as the woman didn't have a very loud voice, meaning that the PA operator had to keep pushing her louder through the PA, causing her to not sound as direct as the others. It's one of the problems with doing these things. If people don't speak up, as I have written about in a previous post, it makes things very difficult to mix.
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