When I say LARGE I mean the whole deal, full orchestra and a choir of over 100. Venue is a historic church with acoustics that obviously suit the performance.
On the one hand it could be kept very simple, a single XY mic with correct placement to capture the performance with the natural ambience. However the client is talking about wanting to make mixing decisions in post, we have access to as many mics as we need for free, yes a few hundred if that's what we want! Just rounding up enough stands is going to be one small part of the challenge but what to record with?
One approach I can think of is to mix down to groups, that should get us down to say 24 tracks but even then I'm not seeing a whole lot of options for recording 24 tracks, I'm not finding mixers that can handle that task and it still leaves a lot of the mixing decisions being made on the day rather than in post.
Having gone through all the mental anguish of working out how to even cable 100 mics to a desk(s), get the levels right etc my brain keeps coming back to KISS, just one stereo mic in the right place and the jobs done, after all how much better can it be made to sound than what it sounded like in the venue on the day?
The video of the event you ask, piece of cake, three or four Z1s, couple off dollies and a jib, maybe a A1 for some hand held closeups.
Bob.
On the one hand it could be kept very simple, a single XY mic with correct placement to capture the performance with the natural ambience. However the client is talking about wanting to make mixing decisions in post, we have access to as many mics as we need for free, yes a few hundred if that's what we want! Just rounding up enough stands is going to be one small part of the challenge but what to record with?
One approach I can think of is to mix down to groups, that should get us down to say 24 tracks but even then I'm not seeing a whole lot of options for recording 24 tracks, I'm not finding mixers that can handle that task and it still leaves a lot of the mixing decisions being made on the day rather than in post.
Having gone through all the mental anguish of working out how to even cable 100 mics to a desk(s), get the levels right etc my brain keeps coming back to KISS, just one stereo mic in the right place and the jobs done, after all how much better can it be made to sound than what it sounded like in the venue on the day?
The video of the event you ask, piece of cake, three or four Z1s, couple off dollies and a jib, maybe a A1 for some hand held closeups.
Bob.