[SML] Microphones for Board Meeting

[e-mail frank.wood95]

Back in the early 1960s, I sat on the General Committee of the
Students' Union of the University of Manchester. There were about
thirty members, sitting round a long table. I recall no problems of
audibility, just of boredom.

What has changed since then? Are we losing our hearing because of
exposure to excessively loud 'popular' music? Have we lost the trick
of actually listening to what is being said?

On 10 September 2015 at 00:24, Alexander Taylor (Mailing List) via
Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> When they decide to do larger meetings (20 admins and board members all
> around the table) I’ll put out 4 K12s, and route the audio from the other
> side of the table to the monitor, so they can hear eachother.  Works fairly
> well (as long as you remember to set the comp properly).
>
> Alexander
>
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:54 AM, nathan best <best.nathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The physical layout is very similar to this with board members at tables
> talking to each other and occasionally a person at the front speaking to the
> group.
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Alexander Taylor (Mailing List)
> <alexander.list at orol.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I do this on a bi-weekly basis.  We just moved to a new venue, so there’s
>> still some kinks to work out, I just got more gear in today actually.
>>
>> We have 9 people around the table (plus a secretary), and have one Shure
>> gooseneck for each member.  Then a Sennheiser wireless for the podium.
>> Those go into a mixer and we use Dugan on it all.  Feeds into the video
>> switcher and 2 Bose L1 model IIs, which work great in our venue.
>>
>> Here’s the link to our videos, hopefully things will improve soon, trying
>> to get the setup squared away in the new venue.
>> https://www.youtube.com/user/orcsdvideo
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2015, at 3:13 PM, nathan best via Stagecraft
>> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>> The mics are for live reinforcement. It's a small blackbox theatre
>> (40'x40'). Hopefully that helps.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:42 PM, John Taylor via Stagecraft
>> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>> You did not say if this was for recording/broadcast or live sound
>>> reinforcement. Big difference between them.
>>> Also if this is going to be live, the type of room/venue it will be held
>>> at influences the choices also.
>>>
>>> The choice and placement will be easier to advise when these are know.
>>>
>>> JT
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/8/2015 11:16 AM, nathan best via Stagecraft wrote:
>>>
>>> Good Day,
>>>
>>> I was recently asked to mic a board meeting at my college, and having
>>> never done this, I'm at a slight loss on how to go about it. The setup is
>>> usually tables set in a U shape with close to 3 people around the outside.
>>> The organizer wants to have everyone micd, but I don't have the equipment or
>>> board capacity to mic each individual. I was thinking of putting either
>>> SM58s (I have a bunch) between pairs of people, but I think the table top
>>> stands might look a little tacky, plus space is limited by binders or
>>> materials, lunch, etc. My other thought is to use some boundary mics, but
>>> I've never really worked with these, so any recommendations on quantity and
>>> placement would be most helpful. I'm looking at something like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/898864-REG/shure_cvb_b_c_centraverse_12_cardioid.html
>>>
>>> Should it be cardoid or omnidirectional? Either way, I'd have to purchase
>>> the boundary mics. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
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