Audio for Video at Live Events

[rob aylestone]

I'm doing lots of video work, now I have sort of officially retired from running a theatre - just not fun any more - so I'm feeling the water. The thing now is that the PA gear is pretty decent, even when loud, but the mix of course is a one off - so you just have to hope. You need your ears for talking to the camera ops, so best you can do is check overall level when it actually running. The live streaming seems to work pretty well - but you have to expect the odd weirdness - especially when the band are playing from real music. No tracks.

 

[Papanate]

I'm doing lots of video work, now I have sort of officially retired from running a theatre - just not fun any more - so I'm feeling the water. The thing now is that the PA gear is pretty decent, even when loud, but the mix of course is a one off - so you just have to hope. You need your ears for talking to the camera ops, so best you can do is check overall level when it actually running. The live streaming seems to work pretty well - but you have to expect the odd weirdness - especially when the band are playing from real music. No tracks.

The Video is good - although I can tell it was difficult to capture with the changing lights - as for the band the singer needs be a little more active like Diamond was - and for me they need three backup singers instead of the solo one.

 

[rob aylestone]

I think the band size and BV singers grow and shrink depending on the venue size - that one was around 300, they've asked me to maybe do it again at a 1400 seater - but my costs go up too - from 2 people, to 4. Adds a lot to the budget. Monitors were floor wedges not IEMs, so the sound was surprisingly clean I thought.

 

[TAE]

Very cool Rob I'm sure you'll dial it in and kill it like you can.

In fantasy land I've thought it would be cool to set up a performance venue with 3 or more cameras rolling where bands could come and perform in front of a small audience and the whole thing was streamed...Even a battle of bands kind of thing where viewers could vote for their favorite band of the night. A lot of moving parts but it'd be cool... Too many projects not enough time or $$$ to pull em all off for now.