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Fig. 33– Miking a speech.
Parade
•
Use a mid-side shotgun microphone.
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Use a Crown SASS-P MK11.
•
Try a PCC-160 on either side of plexiglass panel
over the street. Cover the panel with silk to reduce
wind noise.
•
Try a PZM-30D on a 2-foot-square plexiglass panel.
Again, cover the panel with silk.
Wedding
Place one or two PZM-30Ds on the floor near the
minister. Two PZMs on the floor can pick up the
musicians who play at the reception.
Theater
Place two or three PCC-160 supercardioid bound-
ary mics on the stage floor a few feet from the front
edge (Figure 34). For maximum gain-before-feed-
back and clarity, turn up only the microphone near-
est the person talking.
Fig. 34– Miking a theater stage floor.
Sound effects
To record sound effects on location, use a stereo
mic to accurately track the motion, not a spaced
pair of mics. With the spaced pair, sounds may jump
from speaker to speaker as the sound source moves.
Audio people at the Indy 500 used a SASS to record
a promo for the Dodge Viper pace car. Movies such
as
Days of Thunder and Hunt for Red October
em-
ployed the SASS for sound-effects pickup.
Security and surveillance
A microphone designed for this purpose is the
Crown PZM-11. It can be mounted in the ceiling or
wall in a standard electrical outlet box. The PZM-11
is designed to look like a light switch so as not to
draw attention.
Use it in factories, jailhouses, classrooms, subway
platforms, military installations. Put it anywhere
there’s a need to listen for intruders, listen for people
in trouble, monitor conversations, or monitor ma-
chinery noise.
Musical applications
See the Crown
Microphone Application
Guide,Microphone Application Guide for Studio
Recording,
and the Crown
Boundary Microphone
Application Guide, available free from Crown or your
Crown dealer.
