My Recent On-Location Recording Setup

I recorded several Live podcast episode interviews on the exhibit floor of a large conference.

The host and guest used wireless headset mic’s provided by the union folks. They were OK but very cheap. We also had a handheld wireless mic to take questions from audience members.

I ran all three mic’s into my Sound Devices MixPre-6 to record multitrack, and out of the MixPre-6 I ran the audio into a mixer which was feeding the PA system. This way, I could control the level of the PA speakers without affecting the recording levels of the three tracks.

For post-production I’ll have to carefully mute each person when they weren’t speaking because there was significant bleed in each others microphone, plus there was a coffee stand 15 feet away that would periodically grind coffee beans! Just what every recording engineer loves – nasty, intermittent background noise that is virtually unremovable in post.

All in all it was a success and the episodes will end up sounding very good.

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