Thanks ya’all. I’m afraid I’ve been victim of my own good luck. I’ve never had problems like this in similar circumstances. Several times I shot a very “robust” lecturer who frequently sang a tune or two as part of his presentation with only a lav (and a sure 57 on the guitar but the lav always sounded very nice on its own channel) and the guy wailed into those mics. So …… I never had the learning curve I’m now faced with. I did manipulate the TX sensitivity dial during the performance in desperation to get it fixed. Also the reciever when it seemed the max input sounds were adjusted within range on the TX. Obviously if i’d had enough mic cable i would have gone that route. I presume that the test recordings we did prior to the shoot were incomplete because the other musicians were not present (to add more db’s )… THANKS FOR YOUR DETAILED COMMENTS! and to cut to the chase, WHAT GEAR DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR COMPACT (I’m in south india, trying to get what i can when i can and hoped to double up on my available gear.. i.e. two tram lavs, a Senn shotgun, a sony stereo mic, two sets of the afformentioned Lectro kits… I also have a Zoom 4n recorder that seems to do a great job when manually set)?
THANKS!!!
Hal
(PS.. primary objectives are a documentary based on interviews and occasional local musician performances. nothing fancy)