Friday, June 29, 2012

Where is the Microphone?

I get a lot of questions about where I place the microphone on our Teaching Pastor Ryan. People notice he does not have a lav. on his lapel, shirt, or tie. He does not have anything hanging from his ear. We tried a bunch of ways to get a more consistent sound when while Ryan is preaching. Using a traditional lav proved to have to many volume and tonal changes depending where the microphone was or where Ryan was looking. We tried a couple options of over the ear microphones like the Countryman E6 and DPA4066. We even tried the E6s which was the short version of the E6, I think they are the E2 now. Ryan was either distracted by the microphone often commenting on his Brittany Spears microphone or the thing just did not stay on his head. One day I was sitting there listening to the inconsistent sound of my lav. which at times sounded great but if Ryan moved his head it would change. I had settled on the Countryman EMW classic lav., it gave the most natural sound on Ryan. While I was listening I thought why not mount it to his glasses. He has pretty thick frames, the microphone is small and flat. We gave it  a try and have not looked back since. Here are a couple of photos with my test glases and the Countryman EMW classic. We just use a little gaff tape to apply.




1 comment:

Kelly said...

Wearing Ryan's glasses make you look smarter!