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Thursday, April 03, 2025
Brother, Can You Spare A Spare? Properly Deploying And Allocating Spare Components And Frequencies
ProSoundWeb: Any pro level act is going to allocate a spare channel for, at the very least, the star performer’s microphone and in-ear pack. I’m not talking about spare frequencies (yet), but spare hardware… as in a second mic (transmitter and receiver), and a second in-ear transmitter and pack.
1 comment:
Ari K
said...
This summer when I got a tour of Tommy, I learned that all the actors have two mic packs. One is the main one and the other is a backup. Maybe I’m just too used to analog consoles, but I feel like “soft patching” is not the issue? I will soft patch some things to move a few channels but most of the time I try hard patching everything one to one. I probably don’t know anything, but the mics have to be connected to a rack of some sort. Maybe the rack is connected via cat5 to the console, but the microphones still need to be connected to a channel on the rack, and will show up somewhere. I like that the article provided a picture and a literal example of how it would be patched because I was having a hard time understanding exactly what they meant. I still don’t really understand where some of the problems are that they mentioned, but if this is a foolproof way to allocate spares… if it ain’t broke don't fix it.
1 comment:
This summer when I got a tour of Tommy, I learned that all the actors have two mic packs. One is the main one and the other is a backup. Maybe I’m just too used to analog consoles, but I feel like “soft patching” is not the issue? I will soft patch some things to move a few channels but most of the time I try hard patching everything one to one. I probably don’t know anything, but the mics have to be connected to a rack of some sort. Maybe the rack is connected via cat5 to the console, but the microphones still need to be connected to a channel on the rack, and will show up somewhere. I like that the article provided a picture and a literal example of how it would be patched because I was having a hard time understanding exactly what they meant. I still don’t really understand where some of the problems are that they mentioned, but if this is a foolproof way to allocate spares… if it ain’t broke don't fix it.
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