Large Diaphragm Mic ORTF live recording?

[aloe]

I will be doing a live recording for a church which has an existing house PA system with one single speaker mount in the center. They have a choir, male and female soloists, piano, and an organ. Everything except the organ will be picked up by the house PA system and present from that single speaker to the audiences.

I will get all the signals from the house mixer and record in the 8 tracks recorder and I am thinking of putting a pair of condenser mic in ORTF setup to capture the overall sound of the church. So that I can blent it with the rest of the sound later. I can only setup the mic in the balcony which is about 50 feet away from the choir.

Since this is the first time I will be recording in a live environment, I have the following questions:
1. Am I doing the right thing? i.e. Is this a good setup for recording in a live environment such as church with existing house PA system?
2. Will a pair of large diaphragm mic, such as a pair of Marshall MXL2001 or a pair Rode NT1 used in home recording studio works in this case?
3. If not, should I get a pair of smaller diaphragm mic such as AKG C1000S? or anyother good suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Recording Engineer]

aloe:

I think the main question for you is whether you're going to be using these mics for only this specific application or do they need to be more versetile for other applications as well?

Whether you use small or large diaphragm condenser mics would depend mainly on how you want the mics to react to the transiets and (most of the time), whether you want noticeable off-axis coloration or not; small diaphragms being the ones to follow the transiets better and not having noticeable off-axis coloration (in general).

If you're going to be using small diaphragm condensers, I really suggest you save/spend more and reconsider those two C1000Ss. Some suggestions for reconsideration? That depends on the answer to my question above.

If you're going to be using large diaphragm condensers, I would suggest you save/spend more for at least two Audio Technica AT4033s or two Rode NT-2s (I'd probably go with the NT-2s for this application, myself).

Ofcourse if you can't afford to save/spend more, I suggest you reach for the two NT-1s.

 

[James HE]

What? No "Octavia's from the sond room only" RE?

-jhe