Audience mic'ing technique

[cusebassman]

Hey all - Im puttin on an acoustic show in a couple weeks, and am performing as well as running the PA and recording systems (since they are one organic unit at this point). Just curious how people go about recording the audience sound for mixing into the beginnings and endings of songs to get that "live" sound, like you find between tracks on any live album. I am using two DA-38s into a mixing console, which then runs vocals out to the PA. Everything has its own individual channel so I will have full mixing capabilities after the show. Out of the 16 tracks I have about 4 or 5 left, and was thinking about mic'ing the audience with a couple dynamics, but Im not sure on placement (aside from, say - point at audience to L, R, and Center). Any suggestions or exisiting setups welcome - thanks!

 

[tnjazz]

point at audience to L, R, and Center

That's pretty much it. Depending on the room we use either cards or hypercards. Most of the time we don't bother with center, but on a large stage I like to do 3 mics. There's no real science to it though, unless you're wanting to mic the stage sound as well...

 

[cusebassman]

Nah, just audience. Thanks for the response!