What should i use

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I am doing a summer production, Bugsy Malone for a school but I have no idea what mics i should use
i think at max of 2 soles per scene. I already have:
1, pro-sound dynamic mic YU_37
1, LQP 350 black line amplifier
1, PV 10 mixing desk
Lots of wires and cables

I am planing to borrow a friends peavey PA to plug my mixing desk into and put some micro speaker around the edge of the hall.
Also I will plug my computer into the mixing desk and cue all the music from some software, don't know what it is yet.
I don't need to record it. I can afford up to £1000
i am doing it in a hall

What else should I use? HELP!
 
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... more info please. What are you recording, and what kind of mic is it?
 
Hey Sagfh,

Welcome to the board!

Love to help out with your question but I think that some more background on what type of production you're looking to do would help a bit. Without knowing how you're planning on recording the production it's hard to choose a mic in the blind. What else will you be using to do the recording? Here's a few other guiding questions that might help lead you to an answer:

How much can you afford?

What will you be plugging the mic into? Computer? Mixing board?

Will people be singing? Speaking?

How many microphones do you need? One per person? Clip on mics?

Is it going to be recorded in a theater? A classroom? Outside?

Without knowing anything at all about your production, and for some very basic recording. I would recommend using something like a Blue Snowball, or a Sampson G-track which are both USB based microphones that can be mounted on a stand, and then a recording program like Garageband on the Mac or Reaper on the PC to get the recording. This would be about the most basic setup you could use that would get you a decent recording. But it's also not very flexible, and the biggest limitation is the USB nature of those microphones. Another option would be something like the Blue Icicle which you can use to plug your mic cable into a USB port on your computer. Again very basic, but it works for a decent recording.
 
Does the theater have no SR gear? if not, here's some options that you can use in any combination you see fit. For a thousand pounds, you could probably do close to most of this at once, except the radio lavs, which tend to be more expensive:

If the theater is not already equipped with them, I'd get five or six hanging stage mics (e.g. AudioTechnica U835, Bogen 250, etc.), The trick with those, though is to hang them low enough to get more than just dancing feet on the tracks, but high enough not to be too distracting visually.

Then a couple of shotgun mics (AT again, or Rode maybe) set up as a stereo pair angled up from the floor at stage front. Whether it's a spaced pair or coincident pair is for you to work out depending upon stage size and shape, etc.

Finally maybe a wireless lavalier mic or two (AKG, AT, etc.) for one or two of the lead parts.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Does the theater have no SR gear? if not, here's some options that you can use in any combination you see fit. For a thousand pounds, you could probably do close to most of this at once, except the radio lavs, which tend to be more expensive:

If the theater is not already equipped with them, I'd get five or six hanging stage mics (e.g. AudioTechnica U835, Bogen 250, etc.), The trick with those, though is to hang them low enough to get more than just dancing feet on the tracks, but high enough not to be too distracting visually.

Then a couple of shotgun mics (AT again, or Rode maybe) set up as a stereo pair angled up from the floor at stage front. Whether it's a spaced pair or coincident pair is for you to work out depending upon stage size and shape, etc.

Finally maybe a wireless lavalier mic or two (AKG, AT, etc.) for one or two of the lead parts.

G.
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Why would you hang six mics for two people? Isn't a Bogen 250 an amplifier?

OP: Pick up yourself a wireless condenser lavalier mic system. They don't cost much but if you don't want to invest you can rent them.
 
NYMorningstar said:
Why would you hang six mics for two people? Isn't a Bogen 250 an amplifier?
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Why do you assume two people? Is "Bugsy Malone" a two-person play? He says a maximum of two "soles" per scene - I assume he means solos. But it's rare to find a school production where there are only two PEOPLE on stage at one time throughout the whole play. You might want to radio mic the leads - which I did also recommend - but if two leads are the only ones miked and everyone else is on their own, it leads to a very conspicuous imbalance in the presentation.

He says he is doing this in a hall. Now maybe this hall has only a 15ft stage, in which case he doesn't need that many stage mics, but I'm assuming that since it's a school play that there's going to be plenty of students on a decent-sized assembly hall stage with probably at least one chorus scene, ad I'd want to have full stage coverage. Add to that your average school students' tendency to not project their voice very well, and blanket coverage is IMHO a good idea, and within budget.

And the Bogen WCU250 is a hanging stage microphone, not to be confused with the SCU250, which is a boundary mic, or the HTA250, which is an amplifier. When I typed the post, I had forgotten the prefix on the mic, but I figured since I specified "hanging stage microphone", that there should be no ambiguity about which "250" I was talking about. :rolleyes:

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I had forgotten the prefix on the mic, but I figured since I specified "hanging stage microphone", that there should be no ambiguity about which "250" I was talking about. :rolleyes:

G.
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What do you have sarcasm in your blood? Excuse me for asking a question.
 
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