Mics in live TV studio

[Meska4444]

Would be appreciate for advise. There are a lot of miking techniques how to mike various instruments, orchestras, bands and so far. Also we can find tons of miking techniques on internet. My question would be what kind miking techniques using engineers in TV live studio? What kind microphones are they using? Let's say: I have 5 people band in TV studio. Violin, guitar, acoustic bass, accordeon and vocal. So, in that situation i would use aprox. 5 microphones. But TV director wont let me "baricade" artists with bunch of microfones and stands. Put all this stuff away!!! I wanna see faces of artists not a microphones! So what to do?

 

[Shadow_7]

Does it have a bedroom? Just trying to figure out the HOME in home recording aspect of that. ORTF was designed for studio use. To fill that gap between on set content and a live studio audience. If the group has a sound guy/gal, take a feed from him/her. Various means, most of which have their issues. Besides, don't they all just perform to a CD track these days? ala lip sync / air guitar live.

 

[hairylarry]

Meska,

The most common practice in a TV studio is to use an omni or a pair of spaced omnis, usually dynamics. They might put a lav mic on the vocalist or let the vocalist sing into an unamplified omni keeping the instrument levels low enough to hear the vocals. If the band uses a PA they might take a direct feed from the PA to supplement the spaced omnis.

The most frequently seen omnis are the EV 635a and the EV RE50.

If it's a music show they might go to a lot more trouble.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

 

[moresound]

Would be appreciate for advise. There are a lot of miking techniques how to mike various instruments, orchestras, bands and so far. Also we can find tons of miking techniques on internet. My question would be what kind miking techniques using engineers in TV live studio? What kind microphones are they using? Let's say: I have 5 people band in TV studio. Violin, guitar, acoustic bass, accordeon and vocal. So, in that situation i would use aprox. 5 microphones. But TV director wont let me "baricade" artists with bunch of microfones and stands. Put all this stuff away!!! I wanna see faces of artists not a microphones! So what to do?

If you can't use microphones then DI every instrument and let the vocalist use a hand held microphone.

 

[moresound]

Or you could accomplish your task with a singe large diaphragm condenser microphone with the artist in a semi circle around the microphone Ala bluegrass style!

 

[John Willett]

Would be appreciate for advise. There are a lot of miking techniques how to mike various instruments, orchestras, bands and so far. Also we can find tons of miking techniques on internet. My question would be what kind miking techniques using engineers in TV live studio? What kind microphones are they using? Let's say: I have 5 people band in TV studio. Violin, guitar, acoustic bass, accordeon and vocal. So, in that situation i would use aprox. 5 microphones. But TV director wont let me "baricade" artists with bunch of microfones and stands. Put all this stuff away!!! I wanna see faces of artists not a microphones! So what to do?

So - shoot silent and they mime to a backing track.

Job Done

But if the musicians actually want to be heard, you will have to mic. properly - see if you can watch "Later with Jools" on the BBC (may be on iPlayer) to see how it's done properly by a professional (and "Jools" is recorded in 5.1 for a US cable channel version).

"Seeing Faces" is all down to the vocalists mic. technique - most do this very badly and it drives me mad not seeing the face properly on TV - you just need to teach them that they can still get the proximity effect required, holding the mic. slightly to one side so the audience can see the face properly. ALso choose camera-angles carefully.

Schoeps collette series, Sennheiser MKH 8000 series or Neumann KM 100 series are good for this sort of thing as the mic. head can be mounted on an extension tube and stand that is very unobtrusive and does not get in the way.