[Larry Macky]

Although my solution is probably amateurish, I am going to post what I have learned since might be useful to you or someone else wanting to record a group of people. In my work, I videotaped groups of 4 to 6 people. I cannot attach microphones to individuals without making everyone self-conscious and affecting the process. I have had very good results from using a Sony ECM- Hw2(R) Bluetooth microphone. It can record both from the wireless microphone and from the receiver which is attached to the camera. If I use both sources, however, there is a sense of “roominess” because it combines both sound sources into the one track. So I only use the wireless microphone input setting. Since people are sitting reasonably close together, these microphone placed in the middle of picks up everyone quite well. I have compared it to my wired Sony ECM MS907 and it picks up about twice as much. The fact that the microphone is wireless means that doesn’t call attention to itself and it is rare for anyone to even ask what it is.