[Shaun Kendall]

The only down-side to this is that it would require us to have the “B” system amplifier on whenever we want to have the “B” speakers fed from the “A” system. We were hoping to avoid that, hence the A/B switcher.

We would turn off the “B” system amplifier whenever the “B” speakers are being fed from the “A” system, so there wouldn’t ever be the issue of having an amp with no load attached.

[Shaun Kendall]

Hello Richard, thanks for the reply. The problem with summing the “A” program into the “B” amplifier is that they’ve already run speaker cable from the “A” system over to where the “B” system will be set up. I don’t think they want to run a mic/line level signal over as well. From what I understand, we wouldn’t be able to take that signal down to a level the “B” amplifier could accept as an input since it’s already been amplified by the “A” amplifier.

We don’t have an issue of overloading the “A” system. They actually removed two horn speakers from it when setting up the “B” system. It has a pretty large amount of room to play with, wattage-wise.

We could just cut the wires coming out of the “B” amplifier, the “B” system speakers, and the speaker wire coming from the “A” system, and put connectors on the ends to easily unhook the “B” system speakers and connect them to the “A” system, but I was hoping to find a switch so we didn’t have to manually disconnect and reconnect speaker wires each time we wanted to switch.

[Shaun Kendall]

Absolutely! I’ve done this many times. I’m guessing the Sennheiser kit you have is either the G2 or G3 EW100, where the body pack and receiver each run off of two AA batteries.

Depending on the mixer, you may have to adjust the output level of the receiver or possibly adjust the sensitivity level of the transmitter. If you then want to also send a mix to your camera and your camera has XLR inputs, just come out of the mixer board with XLR, or if the mixer only has 1/4″ output, just convert from 1/4″ balanced (two rings), to an XLR and run that into your camera.

[Shaun Kendall]

Thank you both so much for the information. I did some more research and I believe I’m going to go with a Sanken mic. Looks like I need to special order a converter from the TA5M to 3-pin XLR.

I also appreciate your offer, Eric, but I’ve been working with a guy at Trew Audio, Inc (where I purchased the Zaxcom equipment). I wanted to get a second opinion and see what recommendations other audio pros had to offer.

Thanks!

[Shaun Kendall]

Thanks for your responses, Mark. I thought maybe the LED lighting technology was to the point that you could get a similar priced light to something like a Source 4. It sounds like I’d still be better off going with a source 4 with, say, a 14 degree lens for this type of setup. I know I can get one of those for around $900.

Any LED lights that would accomplish this between $1,000 and $2,000? What would be the least expensive LEDs that would give me similar results (aside from the Bees you mentioned)?

Thanks!

[Shaun Kendall]

Okay, I figured it out. I installed the latest graphics driver and then opened the NVIDIA control panel. In there I selected “Manage 3D settings” and went to the “program settings” tab. I selected Adobe Premiere (adobe premiere pro.exe) from the list and under the “CUDA – GPUs” feature, I changed it to “Use these GPUs” and selected my GTX 560 Ti (which was the only one listed).

After doing that, I opened Premiere Pro CC 2014 and selected “Project Settings – General” and was then able to choose “Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration” under Renderer (which had previously been unavailable).

Hopefully this will help someone else if they encounter the same problem.

[Shaun Kendall]

That’s true, but I currently record from two separate mics (one on the groom and one on the pastor) to two separate cameras, as well as a shotgun on each camera.

I will make that a top priority as far as equipment goes, but I’m just getting started right at the moment and can’t afford it. People have done wedding videos for a long time without that SD card technology, but you’re right, I’m sure there have been some bridezilla situations in the past.

Thanks!

[Shaun Kendall]

I checked out the Zaxcom TRX900LT which is the one that will record to a MicroSD card and it retails for around $1,500 for the transmitter alone. A little too pricey for me at the moment, but I’d definitely be interested in one down the road.

Does anyone else have any others they’d suggest?

[Shaun Kendall]

Thanks for those suggestions, Mark. I’ll check into them.

[Shaun Kendall]

Ok, thank you.